Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John F. Troy, manpower specialist of the Office of Defense Mobilization, stated that the purpose of the law was to help young scientists and researchers continue uninterrupted in their work. He indicated that the case would have to be reviewed by the local draft board on an individual basis...
Over the opposition of out-of-office politicians, who denounced it as the wicked instrument of foreign powers (a British economist and a U.S. irrigation specialist sit on the board), Nuri es-Said has nursed the program through its first four years with a minimum of political graft. Today Iraq, a land of 80% illiteracy, $84-per-capita income and endemic trachoma, bilharziasis and malaria, stands on the threshold of economic expansion. It took courage to concentrate on long-term investments when demagogues demanded relief here and now. but the first fruits of Iraq's wisdom are beginning...
Nuri es-Said's program, in the view of one Washington observer, "is by far the most enlightened and far-seeing program of national development and use of oil revenues anywhere in the Middle East." Yet "Iraq's tragedy," says one American specialist, "is that she needs everything but money." The financing of Nuri's program inside the country was made vastly more difficult when 123,000 dissatisfied Jews migrated to Israel and drained the country of much of its banking and commercial skills. Its realization will be all the harder because too few Iraqis know...
Special Counsel Gerald Morgan, 47, served ten years (1935-45) as assistant legislative counsel to the House of Representatives, now helps draft Administration bills and acts as legal adviser to the President. Administrative Assistant Gabriel Hauge, 41, is the staff's economic specialist. A onetime economics instructor at Harvard and Princeton, he is a former editor of Business Week. Speechwriter Kevin McCann, 51. on leave as president of Ohio's Defiance...
...hard-core members. Sometimes the fear of becoming complacent leads critics to refuse to face the facts, if those facts appear unfavorable to the Communists. Last week the anti-Communist New Leader magazine issued a special supplement, Communism's Postwar Decade, compiled by Russian-born Simon Wolin, a specialist on Soviet affairs for Radio Liberation...