Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moreover, this is not attacking the problem at the right spot. Dr. Henry T. Heald, president of the Ford Foundation, asserts that "Scientists cannot be made overnight with any amount of money. They must be produced by the American school system...
Hampered by the sickness of its two top players, the varsity was hard-pressed to come up with even one victory. Jerry Emmett, who moved up to the number one spot in place of the ailing Larry Sears, lost to Henry Foster, 3 to 0. Poletti's win was by a narrow 3 to 2 margin...
Once in operation, the NATO missile ring would give a vital resurgence of strength to the NATO defenses. The missile launchers themselves will be highly mobile and difficult to spot, hence all but immune to attack by Khrushchev's vaunted rocketry. In the event of a Russian missile attack on cities, the NATO rockets would be sure to respond. Thus, thanks to the IRBMs, the powerful deterrent now provided by the U.S. Air Force (see cover story) and Navy will be extended into the age of total missilery-a period beginning in two to four years when the Russians...
...SLUNK with a shy smile into the embassy drawing room. The smoke-filled hall was an epitome of sophistication, dark suits, military uniforms, low-cut dowdy dresses, foreign correspondents with R.A.F. moustaches, and a large contingent of nervous Egyptian diplomats. It was possible in a flash to spot where the important people were gathered, for not an American or foreign correspondent was in immediate sight-it is only necessary at these affairs to track the Moscow press like sucker fish to locate the big sharks at once. I went into the next room. Suddenly, as if the smoke...
...third-floor walk-up Manhattan studio. With 40 canvases on hand, Still placed only four against the wall. Topmost was the 9-ft.-5½-in. by 13-ft. Red and Black, in Still-like hot red. velvety black and stalactites of white. Director Smith bought it on the spot (estimated price: $5,000 to $7,000). Still says he picked it for the Albright because "it speaks with vigor." As to what it speaks, whether of the West's towering spaces and lost canyons or of city spaces, with looming, black skyscrapers, Painter Still does...