Word: experts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sharpshooters when hostages are involved, partly to keep less trained personnel out of the action. "All you need is one officer on the scene to fire randomly and it could be all over for the hostages," explains San Francisco Police Lieut. Richard Klapp, the city's top hostage expert...
...Port Authority's verdict could seal the fate of the 1,400-m.p.h. SST, which the French and British regard as a historic technological triumph. One French aviation expert warns that rejection by New York "would kill the Concorde." Concerned that the Port Authority was about to do just that, French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing phoned President Carter last week to warn that banning Concorde could "provoke a very grave crisis in French-American relations...
...evidence against Topa was strong but largely circumstantial: bits of wool found on his bloodstained jacket matched the woman's coat. The most striking evidence came from a sound spectrograph, a machine that reduces speech to electronic "pictures" called spectrograms or voiceprints. Lieut. Ernest Nash, Michigan State Police expert, testified at Topa's trial in 1973 that the voiceprint of the telephone confession matched Topa's, not Ferretti's; he also argued that voiceprints were as accurate as fingerprints...
...superiors explain that it was easier to find a new theater critic (second-string Times film reviewer Richard Eder) than to replace Oxford-schooled Balletomane Barnes as dance expert, the job for which he was imported from London in 1965. There were other possible reasons: many in Manhattan's theater community resented Barnes' immense power, and some disliked his tendency to review plays as works of literature rather than live performances. Barnes, 49, has also starred in local gossip columns concerning some marital problems, and his bosses at the Times were thought to be not amused, a prudishness...
...after an operation for bleeding ulcers; in Boston. Born in England and first trained as an electrical engineer, Biggs "instinctively" moved to the U.S. in 1929. He disapproved of florid romanticism and played modern U.S. composers as well as Bach, Handel and Mozart in his reserved baroque style. An expert on the classic organs built centuries ago, he traveled throughout Europe to find instruments on which to play the music originally written for them...