Word: experts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...efficiency expert and auditor at the Pentagon, Fitzgerald has been giving interested Congressmen detailed, inside descriptions of how multibillion-dollar contracts grow between the assignment and delivery dates. Though he has found eager listeners among critics of the military on Capitol Hill, the Pentagon has chosen to treat him as a mildly treasonous pest...
...point for a draw). The Armenians in the audience moaned. Said one official: "It was like the funeral of a father." Then Petrosian rallied. Baffling Spassky with his impenetrable defenses, he tied the score at 6 to 6. For the next six games, the contest was a standoff; one expert described it as a battle between "the young tiger who jumps on his prey and the old crocodile who waits for the right moment for the decisive blow." Then, in the crucial 19th game, Spassky quickly went to the attack and, with a flurry of brilliant closing moves, crushed...
Building Belief. Depression is most likely to afflict the wives of servicemen if they think that their husband's absence is pointless. Navy Rear Admiral John M. Alford, a personnel expert who conducted a recent one-year survey of Navy life, says that when the tone of a husband's letters about his work changes from eagerness to boredom, wives swing from resolution to discouragement. So far, no systematic study has been made on the effects of wifely missives. New Haven Psychiatrist Houston Macintosh found that the spouses of Air Force men, virtually all of whom volunteer...
...Tilea, Rumanian minister in London, was encouraged, probably by a Tory foreign affairs expert, to believe that his country was next on Hitler's list. This fear, passed on to Lord Halifax, the Foreign Secretary, stirred the somnolent British Cabinet to diplomatic action, which took the form of a mutual-defense pact with Poland...
...horses. He spends all his spare hours on handicapping systems or figuring ways to beat the odds. Friends help. Nick Carter, a paint labeler, explains to him: "Never bet a slow starter from an inside post position in a sprint." Mulligan, a caricature Irishman who is handicap expert for the International News Service, instructs him in the folly of following "expert" advice-by not putting money down on his own published selections. "Do you think anybody who knows what he's doin' would give you good information for a nickel...