Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special guest was Milton Stover Eisenhower, 58, president of Johns Hopkins University, topflight educator, a governmental pro of 30 years' experience, youngest of the brothers Eisenhower and the man nearest to Ike in all the world...
...They are even more visible than Americans. The French Riviera, Spain's Costa Brava and the Balearic Islands no longer satisfy the German wanderlust. Travel bureaus now offer all-inclusive air tours to Rhodes, the Canary Islands, Sicily, the Soviet Union and even a special round trip to Communist China. French and Italian tourist bureaus advertise regularly in German newspapers...
...dedicated Communist since 1940, Hor Lung, 52, got his guerrilla training early in World War II at a special British school in Singapore. He commanded the Communists' daringly successful "3rd Independent Force" during the Japanese occupation, after the war turned the regiment against the British. By 1953, he had only one superior among the Communists of the south-a terrorist named Ah Kuk, and known as "Shorty." Shorty's own bodyguards soon took care of that. Learning that there was $66,000 on their master's head, they decided to deliver that head-minus the body...
...handle and hideously corrosive. To stay liquid, it must be kept at - 306° F., and if it merely touches water it will start a 5,000° F. explosion. Now Bell says it has actually harnessed this violence, even in small rocket thrust chambers. The chambers were specially designed laboratory chambers. Their metals are still classified, and so is the ingredient used with fluorine (possibly ammonia or hydrazine). Very special handling also involved unusual welding techniques, new storage tanks, refrigerated pipelines...
...Silva y Velàsquez, court painter to Spain's proud Philip IV, was finishing a portrait of the King's daughter, the blonde, five-year-old Infanta Margarita. Around the demure princess bustled two noble maids of honor and two attendant dwarfs (one got, as a special favor, a pound of snow for each summer-day's work). A mastiff dozed on the floor, and in a mirror, Velàsquez occasionally caught sight of the King and Queen stopping to see how the sittings were progressing. Seized by new inspiration, Velàsquez ordered...