Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their knowledge: they did not know how to make plutonium. That gap, the committee suggested, was filled by Bruno Pontecorvo, the Italian-born British physicist who quietly took his wife and three children on a trip to Finland last fall, then vanished behind the Iron Curtain. Pontecorvo was an expert on nuclear reactors, the devices which are needed to make plutonium...
...Rudolf Bystricky, ambassador to London, veteran Communist and economic expert. After his recall, his wife vainly waited for news of him, last fortnight received orders to come home. Last week, apparently undecided about whether to put herself at the mercy of Prague, she shut herself into her London house (a servant answered the telephone with a nervous, "Madam is out. . ."). ¶ Adolf Hoffmeister, ambassador to Paris, suave, witty writer and cartoonist. His wife, announced the embassy, would "remain in Paris for the time being...
...Pont has sought to avoid anything that might revive the "merchants of death" stigma which the committee's inquisitor, a skillful young lawyer named Alger Hiss, helped hang upon it. But the Government thought that Du Pont was the only company for the job. Said an atomic energy expert: "To ask anybody else to build the plant when you could get Du Pont would be like settling for a rookie when you could get Babe Ruth in his prime...
Giant Manager Leo Durocher's theory that "nice guys finish last" gets the heartfelt support of his rambunctious second baseman, Eddie ("the Brat") Stanky. An expert at the art of baseball trickery, within or without the rules,* Stanky, says approving Manager Durocher, "pulls up a team that's down and keeps the infield together. He's the fire and spirit of this club...
Hollywood's hard-working hours gave Barbara little chance to see her baby. Her husband Carl's was but one of the voices urging her on with advice and suggestion. Some of the advice was probably good, but under the avalanche of expert opinion her own confidence wilted. "The self-assurance she had on the stage just vanished," says one of her best friends on the coast...