Word: expert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...potential, it has already indicated that a strong, well-balanced team is in the offing. The nucleus of the squad is expected to include Dick Woolston, senior forward who is captain of the team and high scorer last season, and George Harrington, the 5 ft. 7 in. set shot expert, who led in scoring after he was inserted in the starting lineup last season...
...assist from the U.S., the rebels will keep up the bombing campaign, which they hope will tell public opinion that "there is a rebel organization." Most Havana citizens, once angry at bomb terror, now seem to enjoy seeing the strongman's authority flouted, and the rebels have become expert at producing the maximum bang with minimum injury. When 90 bombs exploded in Havana a month ago, only eight people were hurt, no one killed...
When a modern bomber strikes into hostile air, it will carry few guns or defensive rockets-perhaps none. Its best defense against missiles and interceptors will be the countermeasures expert, who does his fighting with electronic bullets. In Aviation Week, Philip J. Klass tells a small part of the large, top-secret story of electronic countermeasures...
...basic weaknesses. Radar sends out radio waves that "illuminate" the target just like the light from a searchlight. Then it listens for reflections of its own waves and uses their timing and direction to tell where the target is. If the target is a well-equipped airplane, its countermeasures expert knows when he is being illuminated, and he usually knows it long before the reflections from his airplane get strong enough to be detected by the radar...
...inspires wonder as it ranges freely over the landscapes of strange planets and depicts in scientifically rooted detail how an atomic-powered space craft may some day make an interplanetary flight with a crew that could find a way to survive on Mars. Solidly researched, the show presents expert testimony from Dr. Wernher Von Braun, chief of the U.S. Army's rocket program, and other scientists. No less expert is the comic ingenuity lavished on illustrating man's fanciful speculation about life on other planets-a menagerie of Mercurian thing-amajigs and Saturnian whatchamacallits that goes...