Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years of biology, five years of physics, four of chemistry. Westerners have found that even children's toys point up the stress on science: while dolls and tin soldiers are shabbily made, such gadgets as toy TV sets, workshops, radios and telephones seem to have been manufactured with expert care...
...Geneva in 1955, that Westerners first realized that a great change had come over their Soviet colleagues. At previous conferences, the Russians spoke only Russian, kept to themselves, and if asked a specific question, were apt to feign ignorance. But at Geneva, they were magpie-ready to talk. Aerodynamic Expert Gunther Bock, one of the German scientists taken to Russia after the war, went home to report that "in branches of science where Marxism-Leninism is not directly applicable, there is no feeling of oppression. I could discuss my field with no sense of being in Russia or America...
While sounding out a bill to establish an official version of the larynx-bursting national anthem, a House Judiciary subcommittee listened to an expert on the subject: "Star-Spangled Soprano" Lucy Monroe, who has sung the anthem some 5,000 times (by her count) at World Series games, conventions and other public gatherings. Her recommendation: lower a few of the top notes, maybe, but "I feel strongly the basic melody should not be altered...
Before the Senate labor-management investigating committee, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.'s top labor expert, Charles A. Schimmat, last week reluctantly told a small and ugly story. In 1952, when the C.I.O. Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union was signing up New York area supermarket employees in a successful drive for a 40-hour work week,* Schimmat cooked up a plan for keeping 16,000 clerks in 700 A. & P. stores working on the same old 45-hour week...
...worker. Pflimlin means "little plum" in Alsatian dialect and is pronounced by the French fleem-lanh (London headline-writers have nicknamed him "Mr. Plum"). Studied law at the Catholic Institute of Paris, later earned his doctorate at the University of Strasbourg. With a lively law practice in Strasbourg, became expert in economics and agriculture...