Word: experts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have the point of Aesop's mice-belling-the-cat fable [Nov. 29] exactly backwards, I think. If the fable really offered "the best put-down of the narrow-gauge expert," as you suggest, the mice would have to be narrow-gauge experts at something. But what? Certainly not cats, bells, belling nor, on the evidence, any other form of mouse defense Far from being "assembled experts," the young mice are obviously ill-informed brainstorm-ers-generalists of the most shallow kind-glibly tossing out solutions to a problem they don't begin to understand. The old grey...
...restore due process in any disciplinary procedures against the strikers. The militants' first reaction was that the moves were inadequate and that the strike would go on. Still, the trustees and a majority of the students at San Francisco State were hoping that the acts of its word-expert president would prevail...
...North Viet Nam. There, factional strife had drastically curtailed rail shipment of aid to Hanoi. Exasperated officials summoned Red Guard leaders to an acrimonious conference in Peking, where the rebels were interrogated by the leadership, including Premier Chou En-lai and Kang Sheng, the Chinese Communist Party's expert in ideological matters. Excerpts from the transcript...
...admission policy, San Francisco State College President Robert R. Smith reluctantly closed his campus down (TIME, Nov. 22). Last week, convinced that he was not the man to reopen the college, Smith resigned. Named to replace him as acting president was Professor Samuel I. Hayakawa, 62, an internationally recognized expert not in administration but in general semantics, the study of the interrelationship of language, thought and behavior...
...quality as the door is closed, auto dealers like to spiel about the warranties behind their cars. By the time the happy customer drives off, he has every reason to believe that that handsome document from the manufacturer promises an absence of problems with his new car, fast, expert service when problems do occur and, in fact, just about everything short of Medicare...