Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rough Path. The week's accomplishments spread new polish on a State Department career that so far has not been easy. An engineer like his father, and a Middle East oil expert as well, Hoover was swept into his post after a piece of spectacular diplomacy in 1954. Iran and England were at angry odds over revenues from the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.'s nationalized oilfields. Dulles chose Hoover to find common ground, asked him to find it in 45 days. The 45 days stretched to eleven months; Hoover winged constantly between Washington, London and Teheran, eventually hammered...
...yarn must be very loose, with seven strings to the inch. With the tension of the loom eased, everything then unfolded, and he began his excursion into mysticism. When the rug, with its prediction of World War II, was completed Ridd took it to a connoisseur. The expert refused to believe that Ridd had woven it, and from the design of the work judged it to be from the seventh century of Persian rug-making...
This was partly true, for the days of moving from building to building were definitely over. But the School was quick to grow within its new structure over the next fifty years. The student body increased by 80 percent. New methods changed the techniques of medicine beyond many expert's wildest dreams, and these methods brought about a need for new types of equipment and special types of buildings. Most of all, time took its inevitable toll on the buildings...
Zbigniew K. Brzezinski, assistant professor of Government and expert on the Soviet Union and its satellites, will present introductory analytical remarks...
...Carpet Welcome. Despite this tendency to load her political dice. Han Suyin can convey the heat, the squalor, and flux of Asiatic life with expert touches...