Word: specialist
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Last week Frank Collbohm, the man behind that influence, announced that he would retire at year's end. His successor, Henry S. Rowen, 41, an M.I.T.-educated engineer-turned-economist and defense specialist, is a Rand veteran who has spent the past 51 years in Washington-first as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, and currently as Assistant Director of the Bureau of the Budget. His appointment heightens speculation that Rand may focus increasingly on social problems. Though Rowen insists that Rand will continue to be a key factor in U.S. defense planning, he said last week: "There...
...their writing or sample the sweet joys of summer. Closed up in his Newfane, Vt., summer home, Harvard Economist John Kenneth Galbraith, 57, reports that he is dutifully turning out a new book "one dreary page after another." University of Virginia Professor J. D. Forbes, 56, a specialist in business history, is flying kites and writing detective stories while on a visit to his married daughter in California. So long as they are encouraged, even pressured, to fly jets, it seems likely that fewer and fewer faculty members will get to fly kites in the future...
Major causes of the high death rate, report Dr. Stanley Mohler, a specialist in aviation medicine, and Psychologist Sheldon Freud, were "risk-taking attitudes and judgments." The two researchers were impressed by "the tendency of many of these physicians to fly at night in inclement weather over dangerous terrain, despite limited or no instrument-flight experience. In most of the weather accidents, the pilots had received official briefings concerning adverse weather, but decided to depart anyway...
Distinctly more airborne was Jerry Hannifin, who has been our aviation specialist in Washington for ten years. Owner of a two-seater Air Coupe, he is a weekend flyer, estimates that in 30 years as pilot and passenger he has clocked 800,000 miles. Hannifin spent days with Tillinghast and his top aides in New York and examined the airline's overhaul and maintenance headquarters in Kansas City. He also visited TWA's training center, where he was checked out in the simulator of Boeing's new 707-331. "They cranked in some turbulence," recalls Hannifin...
...physics chair once occupied by Einstein. His successor is Harvard Economist Carl Kaysen, 46, an energetic generalist who has been a weapons consultant to the Pentagon, an antitrust scholar, a foreign affairs adviser to President Kennedy. A rare breed for the Institute, he is not a noted specialist in anything, but his Harvard colleague, J. Kenneth Galbraith, calls him "the most perfectly informed man I have ever known...