Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Eisenhower's special assistant on foreign policy (1954-55), helped produce such projects as Atoms for Peace and the U.S. Geneva Open Skies proposal...
...From the RCA Building's Room 5600 ("Rockefeller, Office of the Messrs."), he presides over some $15 million worth of business investments in 17 other countries. He is a member of 18 boards of directors. He supports with his brothers nearly $4,000,000 worth of charities and special projects a year, from adoption agencies to zoos and including the impressive Rockefeller Reports (initiated by Nelson Rockefeller) on U.S. defenses, economy and education. And he pays special attention to his duties as chairman of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, fostered by his mother...
...Russia almost all historical research is conducted in "special research institutions," Alexander Guber, Professor of History at Moscow University explained yesterday afternoon in a lecture at Harvard Hall. He contrasted this with the American system of holding research projects within universities...
Finally, the book has two general merits which are worth special mention, especially since it is difficult to cite most the merits of a book of this kind except with an empty summary. Guerard writes well; this is a rare quality in a book of detailed criticism, and I hope it sets an example that will be widely followed. Second, he is occasionally willing to summarize; this is an even rare and more useful quality, since it requires more courage than the average academician can muster...
...Harvardman to describe Cambridge, 38. He teaches at Brooklyn College, is a literary critic, and was a former prison psychologist--a helpful attribute for dealing with the University. Harper's proudly reports that Boroff talked with deans and hundreds of students, and even ate a Roast Beef Special at Elsie...