Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some people, Dr. Lanphier believes, should not even think of becoming skindivers : those with heart trouble or breathing difficulties, the obese, those who cannot easily equalize the pressure in their middle ear and sinuses, those with a perforated ear drum, and the reckless. Also, "men over 40 deserve special scrutiny." But the Navy expert's outlook, for all his warnings, is far from negative. Many physicians, notes 34-year-old Dr. Lanphier, a skindiver himself, regard diving as "a sport worthy of their own leisure moments. A more fascinating activity or a better means of keeping in condition...
...adaptation of Jean Anouilh's The Lark was chiefly a Broadway bird. In Hallmark Hall of Fame's skillful TV version, wispy Actress Julie Harris embraced the difficult role of St. Joan like the old friend it has been and, in striking closeup, breathed her special humor and humanity into a rare historic abstraction. As the play opens, Joan is seated on a crude stool, her head bowed, before her judges. In a series of subtly conceived flashbacks, she plays out her great scenes: from the meeting with "a man in a beautiful clean robe with two great...
...Disappointment. Calling the competing cars "stock" models, to imply that they are the same as any on view in the showrooms, was playing fast and loose with auto-show language. Many of the cars at Daytona contained special power packages (superchargers, fuel injection, etc.) that pushed their motors up to maximum performance and all were assembled and tuned with a care given to no car sold off the showroom floor. Detroit's assembly-line mechanics always allow for a certain amount of "slop tolerance"; Daytona's setup experts allowed almost no tolerance at all. They had thousands...
...Three. For spectators interested in true showroom models-minus any special power packs and equipped with automatic transmission, single carburetors and standard exhausts-Daytona's most significant event was the special "Big Three" competition between Chevrolet, Ford and Plymouth. Again, Chevrolet spread-eagled the field. Chevies finished one-two-three with a top speed of 118.460 m.p.h., nearly 7 m.p.h. faster than the nearest Ford, which finished fourth. The fastest Plymouth trailed in eighth place. In the 160-mile beach-and-road race for new convertibles Atlanta's Tim Flock set a NASCAR record of 101.32 m.p.h...
...company. With the help of the National Merit Scholarship Corp., IBM will each year pick (on a competitive basis) 25 children of employees and 25 seniors from secondary schools all over the U.S. for four-year scholarships of varying amounts. In addition to the scholarships. IBM will provide a special cost-of-education gift to each school chosen by its winners. The average annual tab to be picked up by the company once it has 200 students under its wing...