Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Team. With Diefenbaker at the swearing-in ceremony were his chief lieutenants, who will take over the new administration. The Prime Minister, who was his party's foreign-affairs expert in opposition, named himself to succeed External Affairs Minister Lester B. Pearson. To succeed the Liberals' U.S.-born Trade Minister Clarence Decatur Howe, 71, who became the most powerful man in the Canadian economy and, next to Pearson, the Liberal Minister best known abroad, the Prime Minister picked a Winnipeg lawyer, Gordon Minto Churchill, 58. To be Secretary of State (a grab-bag ministry that deals with such...
...Greek coins with a Turkish five-shilling note his father had given him, went on to accumulate one of the world's most prestigious art collections, valued at up to $20 million. His scouts scoured the international art market for him. If they liked anything, Gulbenkian sent an expert; if the expert approved. Gulbenkian went himself. He bought only what he liked, purchasing for pleasure, never for investment or speculation, and he allowed only experts to see his collection. Even good friends were told: "No, I don't think you would appreciate...
Herwitz is a former Teaching Fellow at the Law School, and joined the faculty in 1954. Turner also joined the faculty in 1954, and is an expert in anti-trust law and commercial...
...Aramburu, feeling the hot breath of prideful nationalism, has not given the invitation. The $500 million, U.S.-owned American & Foreign Power Co. Inc. offered last December to invest $145 million and double Buenos Aires' power supply. Argentina declined. With all too little exaggeration, one power expert predicts: "By 1960 you'll be going around Buenos Aires with a candle...
Despite its iridescent charm and aura of good breeding, the miniature became a lost art with the advent of the cheaper, more accurate, less demanding photograph. In its presence, one expert ruefully noted, the miniature "was like a bird before a snake: it was fascinated-even to the fatal point of imitation-and then it was swallowed...