Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...public wishes to have the practical general practitioner of the 18th and 19th centuries but endowed with all the knowledge and skills of the 20th century specialist. It wants the comfort of the home visit combined with all the diagnostic and therapeutic armamentarium of the modern hospital...
There is no doubt that they will be used. Thousands of middle-aged Americans have been converted to cycling by the example of Heart Specialist Paul Dudley White. In Boston, lawyers and businessmen have found that bicycles are the way to beat the traffic jams on their way to and from work. Radically new bike designs have also spurred the sport. Today's bike (which can cost up to $150 for a fancy French import) is lightweight, comes with ten or more gears, which take most of the effort out of climbing hills, and easily removable wheels that allow...
...addition, all the Indian participants are connected with institutions partially or wholly controlled by the New Delhi government. And the American delegation includes several consultants to the White House. Kaysen was a specialist on disarmament for President Kennedy and continues to advise President Johnson. Halperin will join the policy planning staff of the Defense Department soon. Kistiakowsky was Eiseuhower's advisor on science and technology and also advises President Johnson
...many a case-hardened newspaper editor. The suggestion that seasoned journalists go back to school stirs up quite another response. At a time when city hall speaks in the lingo of the sociologist and Madison Avenue admen talk like practicing economists, reporters, too, must learn the skills of the specialist. Most newspapers now welcome the chance to give newsmen classroom time in which they can polish their working knowledge of the professions on which they report. And the opportunities for such off-the-job training are increasing rapidly...
...Reston was, in the best sense, a scoop artist - a specialist at getting information other reporters hadn't. (For a time in the early '50s, he averaged two scoops a week.) And he was also an idealist - who in 1942 had written Prelude to Victory, which he called "not a book so much as an outburst of bad temper ... against anything and anybody who is concentrating but winning this...