Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congo, the limber-legged Negro demonstrated the smooth style and strenuous training techniques that have won him two Olympic gold medals (at 800 meters in 1948 and 1952) and helped him set ten middle-distance marks. * Everywhere, he managed to give local runners a quick course of expert coaching, lead them through exhausting calisthenics and still had strength enough to run the legs off the fastest trackmen around. Seldom has the U.S. State Department sponsored so popular an ambassador...
...current squad are Minnesotans; three of them seniors. Charles Mohlke is president of the student governing body and majors in English, philosophy and political science; Colleen Nelson majors in zoology and music and is a bird watcher by avocation; Joseph Shechtman is a sociology major and the team expert on everything; Eleanor Vaill is a junior majoring in drama and usually has the answers to questions on quotations from poetry. The team gets together about once a week for an hour or two of practice and, the night of the match, eats at a university training table, where, reportedly they...
...forgery team that had so successfully fooled the experts. Malskat told the court, started when he and Fey found that there was more money to be made in selling Malskat's fakes than in Malskat's originals. The two partners soon swamped the German market with up to 2,000 expert imitations of 71 ancient and modern masters. Then came the idea of "restoring" St. Mary's Gothic murals. Recalled Malskat: "I was allowed to stop fabricating French impressionists. Fey had a better job for me: I had to go back to the Middle Ages." But when...
Died. João Alberto Lins de Barros, 57, Brazilian Diplomatic Minister and foreign-trade expert, longtime right-hand man of the late President Getúlio Vargas ; of can cer; in Rio de Janeiro. Joao Alberto played an important role in the 1930 revolution that brought Vargas to power. During the 1 5-year dictatorship that fol lowed, he was chiefly responsible, as federal interventor of São Paulo and chief of police of Rio de Janeiro, for Vargas' survival in the face of repeated internal
...number of her novels bought by the movies (at least 23, including My Best Girl and Wife for Sale). In her 78 novels she has written, by her estimate, about 9,000,000 words at the rate of about $1 a word. At 74, America's most expert fashioner of the wholesome love story is slowing down: Miss Harriet Townsend is her first novel in two years. The scene is old California, but it is still that familiar woman's world which is largely devoted to men. Two beauties, one Spanish, one Irish, become friends, and all goes...