Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sixth Fleet every carrier pilot is "special-weapons qualified," meaning that he is trained to handle atomic bombs. As of now, Admiral Brown's attack squadrons, paced by prop-driven Douglas AD Skyraiders, can deliver a low-level atomic attack at ranges up to 1,000 miles. Late this month the 60,000-ton Forrestal will relieve Coral Sea, bringing to the Mediterranean the Douglas A3D Skywarrior, a 600-m.p.h. twin-jet bomber with a range that can reach all the way to Moscow, if necessary, from anywhere in the Eastern Mediterranean...
Barbara Healey, 10, of Patchogue, N.Y. had almost complete loss of hearing in her left ear and considerable loss in the right as a result of a fall downstairs at the age of 1½. She had to have special training in both speech and hearing. When Manhattan's Otolaryngologist J. Douglas Lake was consulted, he decided to do a difficult and delicate operation called mobilization of the stapes (small bones of the inner ear). For realignment, the ¼-inch (or shorter) bones had to be magnified 16 times under a new type of Zeiss lens. Last week Barbara...
...attendants put her in an incubator and started feeding her a special baby formula. At week's end the baby (whose father is a 400-lb., 11-year-old gorilla named Baron) weighed in at 4½ lbs., and was given a fair chance to survive if she weathered the first few days. If she lives, the happy zoo officials will conduct a city-wide contest to choose a name...
They acquired other special doctrines. Notable among them is that of "soul sleep"-the idea, held at one time or another by such Biblical authorities as Martin Luther, William Tyndale and John Wycliffe, that at death all men remain "unconscious" in the grave, only to rise for judgment on Resurrection Day. (Orthodox Protestants and Catholics today read Paul as meaning that the afterlife begins immediately at death.) Seventh-day Adventists also hold that after the Last Judgment impenitent sinners, and Satan with them, will be annihilated. But orthodox Christianity continues to interpret Christ's words, "These shall go away...
...Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Aim of the new foundation, which draws its funds from the estate of bigtime Chicago Builder Ernest Robert Graham, who died in 1936,* is to give artists, architects and critics of already proved ability a year off to work on special projects of their own choosing...