Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stepping into Schriever's shoes at B.M.D. will be his deputy, Brigadier General Osmond J. Ritland, 49, an old Air Corps test pilot who handled a long line of research and development assignments until 1950, when he was made commander of the Air Force Special Weapons Center's Test Group (Atomic) at Kirtland Air Force Base, N. Mex. Until 1953, when he went off to Washington to study at the Armed Forces Industrial College, Ritland was responsible for the air phase of continental nuclear testing, got his assignment under Schriever...
Cried Ohio's A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive board: "The principal effect of this bill is delivered against honest and legitimate trade unionism." Added A.F.L.-C.I.O. Special Counsel Arthur Goldberg in a hot opinion to state labor leaders: "It is plainly an anti-labor bill." Replied DiSalle with equal heat: Such labor leaders as the Teamsters' Jimmy Hoffa and Dave Beck have gone "a long ways toward destroying what we fought...
...Brady) appears as the pettifogging proprietor of a "think-shop," a sort of Rube Goldberg of the intellect with his head in the clouds of the title; and his students stoop over so their brains can look for profundities while their arses master star-gazing. The playwright achieved a special mixture of satire, criticism, obscenity, invective, wit, fantasy, and lyricism-all within a set of conventions as rigid and complex as those of the 18th-century opera buffa...
...this point the administration, sensing the immanence of an awkward and totally absurd feud, established the special committee to straighten out the situation and to set up a formal delineation of undefined matters concerning radiation. The necessity for clarification is especially pressing due to a report by AEC scientists that radiation in the atmosphere has doubled following the latest Russian atomic tests, and that radioactive material from the latest type of atomic weapons returns to the atmosphere much sooner than the material from previous bombs...
Head coach John M. Yovicsin, chairman of the group this year, will be host of the business-social affair at the Harvard Club of Boston, where the head coaches will discuss matters pertinent to Ivy football. A special guest will be Asa S. Bushnell, commissioner of the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference, who will speak on officiating in college football...