Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Columbia) has plenty of what it takes to bring people into the theaters-a famous title, Technicolor and four famous names: Humphrey Bogart José Ferrer. Van Johnson, Fred MacMurray. But it has less of what it takes to make a first-rate film. The movie is handsome and expert almost to the point of slickness: it is sometimes a little cold and loud where it needs the flare and hiss of honest anger...
...York Herald Tribune's late rac-ig expert (TIME...
...been more successful in the science of designing golf courses than Robert Trent Jones, 48. A onetime tournament player (until ulcers forced him to relax) and something of an expert in surveying, hydraulics, horticulture and agronomy, Landscape Architect Jones has quietly masterminded a revolution in the design of golf courses. Before he came on the scene, most American courses were built on the "penal principle." Hazards were everywhere, to punish any player whose shots strayed from the straight & narrow...
Jones believes that golfers should be given strategic alternatives. He sets sand traps, trims rough and crooks fairways so that high-handicap players can fire a safe, conservative route to the green. But he always puts in a challenge for the expert, a long carry over trees or water to a good approach position, a reward for accuracy and daring. He lays out rolling, contoured greens where pins can be placed in the open or tightened up behind protecting bunkers...
...February day in 1949, however, an elderly American agricultural expert named Walter Eugene Packard drove out to Anthele from Athens. As plainly and unmistakably American as the prostyle of a Midwestern bank, he joined the villagers for coffee and sweets at the local inn and promptly got down to business. "Some of us," he told his listeners, "think you can grow things on this land of yours. Rice, for instance." Torn between skepticism and wonder, the farmers of Anthele listened respectfully as Packard went on to outline a plan whereby U.S. money and Greek labor might be combined to test...