Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SWANS ON AN AUTUMN RIVER, by Sylvia Townsend Warner. One of Britain's master short-storytellers shows that she has lost neither her deft cruelty nor her wise compassion in picturing human fallibility...
...trustees of Williams, was eager to cooperate. He invited three top U.S. educators to advise Thai government leaders and educators on construction and programming of the new university. Dr. John E. Sawyer, president of Williams, Dr. Ashley S. Campbell, dean of engineering at Tufts, and Dr. Richard T. Goll, master of Harvard's Leverett House, are already in Thailand. "I hope that when the educators get back to the U.S.," Linen told Thai newsmen, "they will be active-as I will be-in helping to get private grants and exchange professors for this university...
From all the things sportswriters say about him, Eugenio Monti sounds somewhat bigger than life. He is forever being called "incredible," "dynamite," "the bomb," and "the master." He has "icy blue eyes," "iron hands," and he has survived "countless brushes with death." Actually, in his only major accident so far, in 1958, he got off with a badly broken nose. The real Eugenio Monti is a short, slight, 38-year-old Italian who prefers Coca-Cola to Chianti, goes to bed at 9, earns his living as a ski-lift operator, and hasn't any idea how he happens...
...former Assistant Secretary of Defense, he claims that he can tap his campus specialists, get an answer to most any question for Government or research groups "within 30 minutes." He serves on the President's Committee on Equal Opportunity and seven other policymaking committees. He holds neither a master's nor a doctor's degree, yet has headed Michigan State for 24 years...
...bonuses) design genius who bosses the Burbank "skunk works," where Lockheed keeps its surprises a secret. Broadnosed, with piercing blue eyes and a bubbling humor, Johnson resembles a sober W. C. Fields. He decided to become a plane builder at twelve, joined Lockheed as soon as he won a master's in aeronautics from the University of Michigan. His drawing-board magic has created 19 of Lockheed's famed planes. Among them: the Hudson bomber, P-38, P-80, Constellations...