Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charlie Wilson genially hacking away at military expenditures that he had let get out of hand. Militarily, Sputnik, plus Khrushchev's bold rocket-rattling, gave a bald warning about the grim missile race to come. Beyond all this, the President was bound to bear the brunt of a special American reaction: the U.S. takes deep pride in its technical skills and technological prowess, in its ability to get things done-first. Now, despite all the rational explanations, there was a sudden, sharp national disappointment that Americans had been outshone by the Red moon. The disappointment would linger until...
...best to please by leaping lithely over a tennis net ("How good he is. Crawfie. How high he can jump!" cried Lilibet to her governess), and spicing the conversation on the royal yacht with salty -though not too salty-anecdotes. Elizabeth was entranced, but if Philip remembered anything special about the visit, it concerned the following morning when, back on duty and too' sleepy to hop to at first call, he hit the deck with a resounding whack as a touchy petty officer slashed the cords on his hammock...
...celebrate the event, and to exploit its publicity potentialities, the management of Soho's Le Condor nightclub thought up a special kind of party. The management called it "The Confidential Ball-dressed for exposure," sent out invitations to some 300 of Tony's friends, most of whom accepted. They arrived dressed according to instructions-in pajamas, bathing suits or just their underwear. Among the guests: Lady Jane Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 25, the sister of Lord Londonderry, Sir Hugo Sebright, 26, Daphne Pattine, a cousin of the Duke of Norfolk, one Count Gerhard von Goerl, and a sprinkling...
...searched anyone trying to enter it. With his state thus sealed off, East German Premier Grotewohl went on the air at 8 a.m. Sunday to jolt his people out of bed. Grotewohl gave East Germans just 14 hours to hand in all their currency. Sleepy-eyed, they rushed to special conversion centers to get one new mark for each old one. No one was allowed to carry away more than 300 of the new marks (about $16); the rest was payable after a six-day wait. Unable to cross the border, businessmen and bankers in West Berlin found themselves...
Spokane's Gonzaga University opened its new library, a glittering campus showplace for which sentimental old Non-Grad Bing Crosby (class of '26) donated $615,000. The library, which has 153,000 books, is also outfitted with a special Crosbyana Room. It has wall-to-wall carpeting and glass showcases for Bing's Oscar (for Going My Way in 1944), photographs, citations, old scrapbooks and the 20 gold platters for recordings that sold more than a million copies...