Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last fall, after enemy infiltraters began doing serious damage in Korea, new units of Rangers were hurriedly organized and trained. In Korea, however, the Ranger idea did not work out too well. Division officers were too busy to spend much time locating objectives and planning special operations for the expert and specially trained Rangers. Also some of the Rangers' missions were not suited to their equipment and training, and brought disastrous casualties...
...broke the bottleneck was Clay Bedford, 48, a production-engineering expert on loan from Kaiser-Frazer Corp. Charlie Wilson brought him to Washington last May (at no salary) as his production troubleshooter, because he knew that Clay Bedford was the production brain behind just about every one of Kaiser's most spectacular projects...
Strapping Hasan Hakim, 65, wears the tarboosh of an Arab bourgeois but no man's collar. Between the two world wars he plied his profession as a financial expert all through the Middle East-in Jordan, Palestine, Syria-and won little popularity or following because of the backroom nature of his job and because of his blunt frankness. But he is regarded as an honest man, a mark of true distinction in Middle East politics...
...Have No Idea." Inventor Ross, 31, who got his technical training as a radar expert after volunteering for the British Army in World War II, made most of his new device himself from spare parts and equipment he dug up at Seattle's Intervox Corp. (electronic products), where he is chief engineer. Last week he seemed a little surprised at all the excitement he had caused in the Navy...
...could blandly paraphrase William James to a sobbing nine-year-old sister ("If you cry you will feel bad, and if you feel bad you will cry"). He could swim the 2½ miles across Henderson Bay, and when the family acquired a small sailboat, he became an expert boat handler, weather forecaster, navigator of the coves of eastern Lake Ontario...