Word: experts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only lately begun to master it, particularly since Gordy Grand, 48, took over as president and chief executive last April. New Jersey-born, educated at Yale ('38) and Harvard Law School, Grand became G.O.P. counsel to the House Ways and Means Committee in 1948, became such an expert on taxation (he is currently president of the Tax Foundation) that Olin Industries Founder John Olin hired him as assistant in 1953, promoted him to vice president for administration the year the merger took place...
...Argentinian sociologist will come to Harvard next semester and will become the fourth Latin American expert to join the Faculty this year...
...knew the following things about her: her professional name was Barbara Ward, she had written nine books on world affairs, including 1962's popular The Rich Nations and the Poor, she was famous for her articles in the London Economist. her interests were remarkably diverse. For years an expert on Indian economy (1961's Indian and the West), she is now actively engaged on a book dealing with African problems ("hopefully to be finished next year"). Southeast Asia holds particular interest since her husband is a consultant to the Mekong power project...
...that almost all Americans can make in showing off their communities. In thousands of cases, the shape, size and equipment of the new building owe everything to the little-known profession of school consulting. The best-known of the consultants is Nickolaus L. Engelhardt, 58, a nerveless, gruffly warm expert whose firm, the busiest in the nation, has helped 800 school boards mold the down-to-earth terms of education for millions of kids...
...Waite, who, until late middle age, could hardly tell a Colt from a filly. In 1917, while holding a minor post in the office of the New York State prosecutor, Waite got interested in the case of a man condemned to death on the evidence of a phony ballistics expert. With the help of a New York City detective, Waite demonstrated that the prisoner was innocent and ballistics (as then practiced) was baloney. With admirable zeal, he set out to create a science from scratch. Be tween 1919 and 1923 he acquired data on almost every rifle, shotgun and side...