Word: machinistic
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...court's verdict upheld self-avowed Communist Eugene Frank Robel's right to work as a machinist for Todd Shipyards Corp. An employee of the Seattle shipyard for more than ten years, Robel was indicted in 1962 under the McCarran act when the Defense Department ruled that the firm was a defense industry. A federal district court freed Robel because the indictment failed to accuse him of being an active Communist with the intent to further the party's subversive aims; the Justice Department appealed the case to the high court...
...Angeles, a machinist, aged 29 was charged with "driving under the influence of LSD" after police said he had run through a red light, injured a woman and her daughter in another car. He later told police he remembered nothing about...
...machinist's son, young Julio entered the Buenos Aires Academy of Fine Arts at 15, evolved from naturalistic painter into op artist under the influence of the works of Klee, Mondrian and Vasarely. He emigrated to Paris in 1958 and two years later, with a handful of other young Parisian artists, formed the highly experimental Groupe de Recherche dArt Visuel. One of the group's "researches" consisted of passing out Le Fare's cheating cheaters, along with chairs and shoes set on kangaroo springs, to passers-by on the St. Germain and Montparnasse boulevards...
...David Greenglass (Ethel Rosenberg's brother) was a U.S. Army machinist stationed in Los Alamos as part of what turned out to be the Manhattan Project. In January 1945, he said, Julius Rosenberg asked him to watch out for a new bomb, parts of which he soon found himself machining. On June 3, Green-glass handed lens-mold sketches to a courier who gave the password "I come from Julius." In September, Greenglass went to New York and gave Rosenberg a cross-section sketch of a Nagasaki-type bomb. Greenglass pleaded guilty before testifying, got a 15-year sentence...
...result of Manhattan Project Machinist David Greenglass's secret testimony in 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for giving the Russians what the U.S. prosecutor described as a sketch of the 1945 Nagasaki "Fat Man" atomic bomb (see cut). For purportedly aiding the Rosenbergs, Morton Sobell got 30 years. But was the sketch substantially accurate...