Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...started right off lecturing the Kozlov party. "It is incumbent on all politicians and statesmen," said he, "to realize their great moral responsibility in handling a force" such as atomic energy. As the tour began, Rickover began stepping up the voltage. "Are you smart enough to understand everything I explain to you?" he asked. "Da," grinned Kozlov. Pointing out a relatively simple, 2,300-volt pump, Rickover cracked: "Even a politician can understand this." A few minutes later, without batting an eye, the admiral announced: "We can detect your bomb explosions." Kozlov guffawed. Said Rickover: "I wanted...
Returning to Mexico, young Bob White took up work on the family paper and two hobbies: sports cars (he owns a Jag) and joining. His penchant for joining organizations got him widely known in the newspaper world, helps explain how the editor of the Mexico Ledger moved in one giant stride to become president and editor of the New York Herald Tribune. Board chairman and past president of the Inland Daily Press Association. Bob White is also a director of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, chairman of the Associated Press nominating committee, a member of the National Conference of Editorial...
...Student White (One Man's Meat, The Second Tree from the Corner) is more than qualified to add his own exhortations to the professor's lecture. Some of White's Strunkian reminders: Do not overwrite. Do not overstate. Do not explain too much. Avoid fancy words. Revise and rewrite. Perhaps above all, shun the modern euphoria of Old Spontaneous Me ("Stay out of the act"). To White, style cannot be separated from sense: "The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one . . . Young...
...Sylvania are hard at work on missile and space systems. Smaller firms make components and instruments-some of them so tiny that a week's production fits into the rear of a station wagon. Many of them are so sophisticated that even company brass are hard-put to explain how they operate. From 128's small companies come devices that can read print optically, or probe space to guide a missile...
...Fernández Pérez, president of the Rustic Estate Owners, a tobacco farmer and rancher and onetime Castro supporter, now an outspoken critic (TIME, June 22). Then Castro summoned press, labor and government delegates from all over the hemisphere to Cuba this week to hear him explain what a good idea land reform...