Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Appearing on a TV chitchat show in Chicago, Boston Pops Orchestra Conductor Arthur Fiedler was hesitantly asked if he dislikes any special kind of music-such as, maybe, rock 'n' roll. He astonished many adult listeners by replying: "I like rock 'n' roll-a certain amount of it. I think that's completely American...
...eyes and makes a peculiar noise . . . The child is not foolish but is lacking in many ways. I do not wish to send him to public school for he will not protect himself but will take any amount of ill usage and never mention it. I think he needs special management and I am unable to undertake...
Developed by the David Clark Co. of Worcester, Mass., the suit has a loose outside layer of shiny, aluminized fabric to protect the inner layers and to reflect solar or A-bomb heat. Inside is a coverall of special, airproofed nylon material carefully fitted to the individual wearer's body. In its normal, pressureless state, it is flexible and reasonably comfortable (see cut). Cold air or oxygen can be pumped through it to cool the pilot if his cabin gets...
Electronic countermeasures have become so vital that many bombers will carry nothing but electronic equipment. Sylvania Electric Products Inc., for instance, is developing a special counter-measures pod to be. carried by a B58 instead of a bomb load or air-to-ground missiles. One or more such B-58s will convoy bomb-armed bombers, shelter them under a canopy of deceitful signals, tell attacking missiles to go away, and, as a last resort, surround the formation with a swarm of small, big-looking decoys...
After he was demobilized as a warrant officer in the German Wehrmacht, Siegfried Schmutzler began to study theology, and in 1954 was ordained an Evangelical minister in St. Peter's Church in the East German city of Leipzig. The students of Leipzig University were his special concern; he volunteered to serve as minister to the Evangelical Studentengemeinde. This organization was no more political than a campus branch of the Y.M.C.A., but after the Hungarian massacre last year, the Reds grew jumpy about any non-Communist student organization-especially one with so opiniated a pastor...