Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fourth is due in December), is the best campaigner on the Maine scene in many a year; even Republicans admit that he has been the most effective Governor in the last 50 years. He got the credit and Republicans the ill will last spring when he called a special legislative session, proposed to extend recession-ridden Maine's unemployment aid or accept federal help, was turned down by G.O.P. legislators. Just three days before election, President Eisenhower vetoed the Payne-sponsored bill to provide federal funds for depressed areas. Another economic factor: the 57,000-member A.F.L.-C.I.O. poured...
...planes are flying armed only with conventional weapons. "We are not flying loaded for bear, but for rabbit," said one pilot wryly. But on the deck of each of her carriers, right over the "special weapons" bay, stands a single A3D bomber. An armed marine guard stands by to keep inquisitive seamen at a distance. Should the signal come from Washington, the deck beneath the A3D would open, and up would come an elevator to tuck into the plane's belly a nuclear bomb capable of reducing all Peking and its masters to radioactive dust...
Massive Boycott. Britain's "partnership" plan, introduced last June, had run into massive resistance from the Greek majority. Under it, Cyprus would get limited self-government with separated Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot legislatures; Turkey and Greece would each appoint a special representative to advise the British Governor. Turkish Cypriots, who had been holding out for partition, grudgingly accepted "partnership...
...these detecting methods work very quickly. Another method, collecting radioactive debris from an explosion, takes more time, but is nonetheless useful. The experts recommended that rainfall all over the earth be checked for radioactivity. In dry countries a special collecting surface should be washed down periodically and the water checked. Weather airplanes flying their regular routes can carry observers and collecting equipment...
Heavy Weather. As the designer of the 19-year-old Vim, until this summer the finest 12-meter yacht in the world, Stephens had a good head start when he settled down last winter to create the 12-meter Columbia. The new boat posed special problems. In the summer, when the trials would be run, the breezes off Newport can be as soft as a whisper, but in September, cup race time, freshening winds often turn the waters into a white-capped obstacle course...