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Skipping the Summit. To meet that deadline, other Rumanians were dickering with potential economic allies, both East and West. Doubtless to Khrushchev's chagrin, Bucharest announced the conclusion of an accord with Red China that would swap Rumanian know-how in the field of petroleum engineering for Chinese expertise in agriculture, chemistry, and food processing. At the same time, Rumania was sounding out two U.S. firms -Boeing and Douglas- about the possibility of purchasing short-haul jet transports...
...chair sits a senior from a suburban high school, full of new-won know-how in math, afire with the impulse to do something "meaningful." In the next chair sits a small slum kid, who flunked arithmetic in his big and unruly second-grade class last year. The kid needs some of what the senior has, and he's getting it. Such, in essence, is tutoring, this summer's nationwide channel for student idealism...
...losing side against the Red army in World War II, the Finns in 1944 were forced to pay an exorbitant reparations bill: 17,680 square miles of territory and $300 million worth of goods, including industrial products that they had no means of producing. It took know-how as well as sisu, but they did it. The Russians, who had also occupied the naval stronghold of Porkkala just west of Helsinki, finally withdrew...
...takes only a little know-how to buy an expert who happens to represent the right view" is the cynical observation of one Washington, D.C., law professor. Most trial lawyers would agree to the fact, but not necessarily to the cynicism. Particularly in such fields as psychiatry, where theories, methodology, and even terminology are far from settled, the diametrically opposed expert opinions brought out in a trial are likely to be rooted in genuine professional differences. But the ability to make a choice between those differences is one of the cornerstones of U.S. justice. When experts cannot agree, the final...
...Cuba is the only country where the U.S. has refused to permit dealings with both Cold War blocs, Stone said, adding that "we're not going to succeed on this basis." If America accepts Cuba's natural trend toward socialism, he continued, there is great room for American aid, know-how, and business ability on the Latin American Island...