Word: adeptly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Trafalgar Square with Folk Singer Joan Baez in a 1965 antiwar demonstration. Last week Worrall, in striped shirt and sweat-stained Levi's, was humming a different tune as he sweated in the dust of Phu Cuong, twelve miles northwest of Saigon, building homes for Vietnamese refugees. An adept at the ancient art of cumshaw and cajolery, Worrall overcomes the perennial shortages of materials by canvassing battlefields in a borrowed "deuce-and-a-half" (2½-ton army truck) and scavenging useful debris like 105-mm. ammo boxes, which he pounds into A-frames for his buildings...
...onetime $100-a-month U.C.L.A. logic instructor who is equally adept in academese and computerese, Palevsky aims to keep S.D.S. at that nimble size where "we need optimize our strategy only in a small sector of the market." S.D.S. may already be growing out of that league. Last December the company delivered the first of its Sigma family of realtime, third-generation computers. The most complex, Sigma 7, costs up to $1,000,000, can serve more than 200 users simultaneously on a time-sharing basis. Sigma thus represents a big step into highly competitive commercial data processing...
...French horn: The class of the brass, he is refined and erudite, is one of the highest-paid members of the orchestra and acts like it. Unlike the other brass players, he has never known the camaraderie of playing in dance bands, and tends to stand aloof. He is adept at organizing strikes and protest movements...
...taught political science and economics at Harvard for nearly 20 years, interspersed his teaching with government service, ranging from World War II's War Production Board to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission. From 1961 until early 1966, when he moved back to Washington, Gordon was an adept ambassador to Brazil. He will leave State in June, accompanied by President Johnson's blessing as a man with "a rare combination of experience and scholarship, idealism and practical judgment...
What is the technology gap? How real is it? Commerce Secretary John Connor, an adept at soothing utterances, suggests that it could more accurately be called an "industrial disparity." Whatever the name, Europe shows real enough symptoms of the condition. Everywhere about him, the European sees American products and processes. When a Frankfurt businessman rises in the morning, he may well reach for a Gillette razor blade, Colgate toothpaste, and hair lotion that comes in a bottle made by an Owens-Illinois subsidiary. After he downs his Maxwell instant coffee with Libby condensed milk, his wife, trim in her Lycra...