Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once Moyers is gone, who-if anyone-will become the new primus"? Actually, it may take months for a successor to surface. When he does, he will almost certainly be a versatile, nimble-witted "generalist" rather than a narrow specialist. Johnson, as one aide puts it, likes men who can "go where the ball is." They serve him as a headquarters staff, husbanding his time and refining ideas for his easier digestion...
...first areas the council will study is the growing financial importance of Federal-State government relations. Beer, a specialist in this area, said yesterday that the Council will make sure the state takes maximum advantage of opportunities to obtain Federal money for state projects. The growing importance of Federal money in state politics, Beer explained, is one of the main forces behind Kennedy's increasing role in Massachusetts internal politics...
...rage for new angles, however, has not lessened at all. Throughout free Asia, the demand for plastic surgery now exceeds the supply of plastic surgeons. A Bangkok specialist, who performed more than 1,000 operations in 1965, reports that his business is growing at the rate of 10% a year. In Hong Kong, where the practice is strictly regulated by the British government, there is a booming black market of unlicensed operators, most of whom got their start as beauticians...
Died. Brigadier General Lacey Van Buren Murrow, 62, Air Force flyer and eldest brother of the late Edward R. Murrow, a troop-carrier specialist in World War II and Korea, who retired in 1953 to a variety of highway-and railroad-consultant jobs; by his own hand (shotgun); in Baltimore...
Early Warning. To prevent such errors, Philadelphia police are developing a new specialist: the "civil-disobedience man." Founded in 1964 by former Commissioner Howard Leary, who now heads New York City's police, the Philadelphia civil-disobedience squad consists of only 24 members: a lieutenant, a sergeant, four policewomen and 18 elite policemen, half of them white and half Negro. Picked for warmth, patience and maturity (average age: 38), C.D. men are schooled in sociology and human relations; they study civil rights under University of Pennsylvania law professors. However small in numbers, the squad is worth a division...