Word: whiz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Failure of Nerve. As an antidote, the report suggested the cultivation of specialists and men trained in the management of people, paper and budgets. In this respect, the report is a decade-later application of Robert McNamara's Whiz Kids techniques to the nation's oldest executive agency. In the past, the Foreign Service has prided itself on producing diplomat-generalists, but the complexity of foreign relations in recent years has shown the need for developing diplomats with more concentrated skills in technical areas...
Billions of Miles. Called STAR (for Self-Testing And Repairing), the experimental electronic whiz is the prototype of a computer that is being designed for a most demanding assignment: guiding the first unmanned expeditions to Jupiter and the other outer planets later in the decade. These far-ranging planetary "grand tours" will carry spacecraft billions of miles from earth to the very edge of the solar system and take up to eleven years to complete. Unfortunately, even the most reliable of contemporary computers would almost surely suffer a failure of some of its components long before the end of such...
...there Crone would be vying with Ted DeMars for the starting position. DeMars was undoubtedly the team's best runner by the end of the season, and he will be hard to displace. Not to mention Steve Harrison- the man DeMars replaced- who is also returning, and freshman whiz Nick Leone. And Chuck Krone, who was injured this year, will be returning and he may be even better than DeMars...
...business in the House will be a vote on the most restrictive piece of trade legislation since the disastrous Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930. The bill, which would raise prices by denying consumers access to many imports, is likely to pass after only perfunctory debate, and then whiz to the Senate. There the Finance Committee already has voted to attach it as a rider to a measure raising Social Security benefits. The odds are that the Senate will pass the package in early December...
...Evans used to be a whiz," Starr said yesterday. "He would ring up 15 games on a machine and walk away." Evans, who graduated from Harvard in 1969, is reportedly living in Watertown, but he could not be reached for comment yesterday...