Word: specialist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protect what we already had," says one dean, "but I am more concerned about the future than today's needs." With Hancher approaching mandatory retirement at 68, the regents last year also began to think about the future. Screening more than 130 candidates, they finally chose Bowen, a specialist in economic theory, whom they found only 56 miles away, where he was president of Grinnell College...
Moser's call for a cold shoulder was cold-shouldered by most of his Yale colleagues. Robert Jackson, a specialist in Russian literature, called Moser's statement "irresponsible," and said that the university should be hospitable to obnoxious opinions. Even Frederick Barghoorn, who spent 16 days in a Moscow jail last year as an alleged U.S. spy, gulped and endorsed Rozhdestvensky's visit as a useful dialogue that explores rival opinions...
...farm specialist, arrived in Pago Pago in 1961 to find the territory's schooling in a mess. Most of the 300 teachers had educations equivalent only to a Stateside fifth grade. Teaching for the 5,500 pupils was supposed to be in English, "but the teacher's own English was unintelligible. It was merely a case of the blind leading the blind." With an assist from Ohio's Democratic Representative Michael J. Kirwan (whose son John is assistant director of the U.S. Department of Interior office responsible for overseeing American Samoa), Lee wangled $1,600,000 from...
...educated man who must bear the burden of making democracy in a technical age a responsible form of government. Though everyone, of necessity, will have to function as a specialist, it is only through the acquisition of a wide and deep general background that anyone will be able to function effectively as a citizen...
...Buffalo Bills in the 10th round. Both these teams have had pleasant experiences with Ivy League choices of the recent past. Cornell graduate Gary Wood, a first-year with the Giants, is currently backing up quarterback Y. A. Tittle, and Wood's teammate of a year ago, Hungarian kicking specialist Pete Gogolak, has used his accurate instep to become a leading scorer for the Bills...