Word: expertism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dope Sheet. In Toronto, Ont., a Telegram racing expert picked Joker's Hill to show in the featured fifth at Old Woodbine track, had some explaining to do when Joker's Hill never ran, turned out to have bowed a tendon, was shot a week before the race...
Last week, plagued by upsurging crime rates, the District of Columbia decided to imitate Neighbor Baltimore and set up a police-dog corps. As in Baltimore, the dogs will be male German shepherds, trained by expert handlers, and each dog will be assigned to a particular patrolman, working only with him. Eventually, said District Commissioner Robert E. McLaughlin, the police department hopes to have 80 or 100 dogs on duty in the nation's capital...
...ends her autobiography with a scatter of advice for her sisters. She recommends that they find a man of 40 (by then "he has matured and ripened") with plenty of money ("in love it buys time, place, intimacy, comfort, and a private corner alone"), who is not too expert (the ideal "is the man a woman can teach something about love he never knew before"). She also tells women how to make themselves more attractive to men. The depressing formula: constant exercise, no fried foods or fats, daily massage with cocoa butter followed by a cold spray, and a visit...
...claim to know precisely where the Lunik landed. Astronomers from the Ukraine's Kharkov Observatory, who watched and photographed the moon at the moment of impact from a high-flying airplane, think they saw 'a light effect" at the right instant. U.S. astronomers doubt it. Moon Expert Gerard Kuiper of the University of Chicago thinks that no flash of impact would have been visible against the moon's sunlit surface. He questions a Hungarian report of seeing a long-lasting dust cloud on the moon. Since the moon has virtually no atmosphere, dust particles tossed up from...
...world is a massively built man (6 ft. 1 in., 220 lbs.) with the shoulders of a riot-squad member and the broad, ranging mind of Sherlock Holmes. His name: Per Jacobsson (pronounced yah-kub-son). His job: managing director of the International Monetary Fund. Jacobsson is an expert at pleading, cajoling, and onoccasion forcing nations to follow wise economic policies. Thanks to the Fund -and booming production in Europe -Jacobsson reported last week that "Europe's monetary troubles have been successfully overcome, from a whole series of emergencies, on to stability, to external convertibility." Now, says...