Word: expert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Telltale Warmth. A trained intelligence expert can extract all sorts of information from an infra-red photograph. He can follow traffic along the roads and into underground hiding places. He can tell by the temperature of its winches whether a ship is handling cargo. He can decide at a glance whether an airfield is in use. Infra-red camouflage is theoretically possible, but even if a plant or missile station is put deep underground, it will have trouble dumping its heat in a way that will not show...
Icecaps can be cozy. Last week Arctic Expert Robert Philippe, recuperating in Alexandria, Va. from an airplane crackup, told how the Army engineers make themselves comfortable in Greenland's icy interior. Instead of fighting polar blizzards on the surface of the icecap, they dodge them by burrowing into the ice, just as many Arctic animals find shelter under the snow...
...Vatican Observatory at Castel Gandolfo. Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who died in 1955, was a paleontologist of world renown who unearthed conclusive evidence that the so-called Peking man discovered in China in 1929 was human. Father Francis J. Heyden of Georgetown University is a recognized expert on eclipses. Many
Under Grandfather's expert guidance, Gilles started on a career of pillage and debauchery, sadism and sodomy. The only year of his life that becomes him was 1429, when he fought side by side with Joan of Arc against the English, and King Charles VII made him, at 24, a marshal of France. But even this year of good behavior is challenged by those who believe that, aided by Burgundian friends, it was he who betrayed Joan. Skipping out on the wars, despite a pledge to the King to fight on, Gilles returned to Tiffauges, lived it up with...
...bulk of what Paris turns out. But the excitement over the new 1958 fashions last week was all about the extremes: long, telescopic dresses, tubular coats, enormous, helmetlike fur hats. The styles were so odd, in fact, that the Women's News Service syndicate hired Fashion Expert Iris Hartman, sister-in-law of Dance Satirist Paul Hartman, who took one horrified look and reported: not the New Look, the Mummy Look or the Kept Woman Look, but clothes that looked toadlike. Headlined the New York Journal-American: IT'S GRUESOME LOOK FOR '58. Said Iris...