Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles away, at about the time schoolchildren were standing on the street corners waiting for buses. For the next three days, there were similar problems. Actually, the AEC did not think that the tests would produce dangerous fallout, but they had to think of public reaction. Said one atomic expert: "We're interested in minimizing the fear of hazards as much as the hazards themselves." At week's end the Nevada test managers finally decided to start the series with what had been scheduled as the second step: the drop of a "baby" atom bomb (equivalent...
...Mona is the Government's No. expert on letters. Her pamphlet on style, her precooked form paragraphs, and her mail-room short cuts are standard in many Government offices. Her nix-list of 150 avoidable words and phrases is well known to Washington letter writers. Samples: Held in abeyance (wait is better), at the earliest possible moment ("this may be the moment the letter arrives"), finalize, (a "manufactured" word), in the near future ("say soon"), attached please find ("attached is is adequate...
...Khyber Ribes." In one scene the natives have a rollicking time galloping back and forth as they toss spears into the captive Britishers-no American censor murmured a word of objection. In Europe, however, the "atrocity" found approval for showing in only a few countries. A Hollywood expert has estimated that about four out of every five cuts are because of "that excess sadism." Both Britain and Australia are especially touchy about actors who kick dogs or beat horses. In a few countries the authorities fear violent scenes will incite action among the politically unstable, as in Indonesia, where...
Mustached Julius Holmes, 55, has had a career as varied as the intricate pattern of a Persian rug. A Kansan* who entered the Foreign Service in 1925, he served at four Mediterranean and Balkan posts before returning to Washington as assistant chief of protocol. In 1937 Protocol Expert Holmes resigned to become vice president of the New York World's Fair and, in effect, Grover Whalen's secretary of state...
...Deputy Premier and apparently No. 8 or 9 in the hierarchy), who brought him to Moscow. After the vast 1937-38 purge had carried off hundreds of thousands of his comrades, Khrushchev was sent into the Ukraine to help build up the demoralized party organization. He became a Ukrainian expert...