Word: detective
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sharps & Suckers. One key to a successful game, Yardley learned early, is to be observant, to study the others at the table until you know all their idiosyncrasies. "When players check, call or bet," says Yardley, "a man with a sensitive ear can detect a slight inflection of voice and read what it means." The earnest student scrutinized card sharps and suckers from Indiana to Chungking-and while he parted them from their cash, some of them came apart themselves. He was at Monty's Place in Worthington the morning a traveling salesman named Jake Moses...
Edward Teller shares the desire for peace, but he doubts whether halting tests would bring it any nearer. He is convinced that the Russians would evade any no-test or disarmament agreement, unilateral or otherwise, and that absolutely foolproof detection of tests is impossible. On this point he is apparently more skeptical than President Eisenhower's scientific advisers. Said the President at his press conference last week: While there is "a little field for uncertainty," it should be possible, with "proper inspectional facilities," to detect "any sizable test...
...hand, taught a group of artisans to use them. The pieces of the old bridge were lovingly fitted and pieced out with new stone taken from the same Boboli Gardens quarry that Ammannati had employed. Architect Gizdulich grew so familiar with the ancient plans that he could even detect errors in Ammannati's work. But he concluded they were "adorable errors," and carefully preserved them. Workers pieced together fragments of the four statues of the seasons from the river bed, placed them in their old positions on the four corners of the 110-yd.-long span...
...Nevada proving grounds, opened up a new vista for the peaceful uses of atomic explosives (see SCIENCE). But the prospect of the bright atomic future stirred up less interest in Washington than a dispute over how far away an underground A-bomblet's shock wave can be detected. Reason: the ability to detect or conceal a test explosion has a vital bearing on the growing debate over whether the U.S. should accept Russia's proposal for a suspension of nuclear tests, with each side stationing inspection teams inside the other's territory...
...MILLION CONTRACT will go to General Electric Co. to design, build and test world's biggest known radar system. It will be first part of Air Force's $721 million missile early-warning system (TIME, Feb. 3) to detect ICBMs in flight several thousand miles away. Work starts soon in G.E.'s Syracuse plant, will buoy company's defense employment...