Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same time it was announced that two outstanding fine arts scholars, Millard Meiss of Columbia and Sydney J. Freedberg '36 of Wellesley, will join the faculty next year. Meiss, an expert on Italian Renaissance art, will serve as a full professor. He expects to teach during the first semester, and will devote the second half-year to museum work. Freedberg will become an associate professor, and will study on a Guggenheim fellowship next year...
...Tacoma, a more solemn expert said that the damage was being caused by unseen little people from outer space, who found that their sonic weapons were not powerful enough to destroy animal tissue, and were venting their disappointment on windshields...
...Petrovs in Australia, are the known cases; official Washington sources hint that there are others. Try as it may, Communist propaganda cannot mutter a simple "good riddance" at the defections of such people. They know too much. Evdokia Petrov was not just a spy's wife. As an expert code clerk in her husband's espionage apparatus in Australia's Russian embassy, she knew secrets...
...large must the particles be? Dr. Thomas, an expert on ballistics, points out that their speed when they hit the satellite would be about 46,000 ft. per sec. (31,000 m.p.h.). At this enormous, meteorlike speed, he figures, a particle only five-thousandths of an inch in diameter would punch through the satellite's skin. Since each pound of metal contains more than a million such particles, a warhead weighing 8,000 Ibs. would punch 8.000 holes in the satellite station. The deadly little particles would be moving in slightly elliptical orbits around the earth. They would scatter...
...John D. Leland, 50, was named president of the Long-Bell Lumber Co., third biggest U.S. producer of lumber. A suave, silver-haired financial expert, Leland graduated from Harvard Business School in 1927, was a member of the Boston Stock Exchange until 1941, when he became assistant treasurer of the Brookline Trust Co. He joined Long-Bell in 1946 as assistant to the vice president. He replaces retiring President Julian M. White, who will remain active on the board...