Word: technicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last summer, instead of kicking the machines, Alvin and Joseph E. Doherty, one of the union's business representatives, asked Industrial Engineer Hauer to draft an experimental course that would make electronic technicians out of the union's semiskilled machine-tenders, the most vulnerable targets of automation. With the help of Donald B. Levinson, a Hughes Aircraft electrical engineer, and RCA Electronic Technician Joseph Schoen, Hauer settled on a night curriculum. The class will meet twice a week for four years, start with the simplest math problems but eventually lead the students through basic courses in radar, physics...
...Jones had to watch every penny. So she was delighted by a neighbor's suggestion that a dental laboratory down the block could make her a set of false teeth more cheaply than a dentist could. On her first visit to a grubby North Clark Street office, a technician examined Mrs. Jones's mouth and told her: "I have had a dentist for 28 years, and he knows his stuff." The lab man quoted...
...colleagues in the university," the physicist said, "the scientist tends to seem more a man from another planet, a creature uttering profound but incomprehensible truths, or a technician scattering antibiotics with one hand and atomic bombs with the other...
...native Odessa). No single concerto can be a thorough test of a pianist's capabilities. The full measure of Gilels' musicianship for Americans will come this week, when he gives a Carnegie Hall recital without orchestra. Meanwhile, it was plain that the Soviet pianist is a phenomenal technician with conviction and passion. Leaving the stage after last week's concert, Ormandy was heard to say: "This boy really purifies a work that has become vulgarized through use and misuse. He is one of the greatest...
...usual, the epitome of that world was Margot Fonteyn, who again opened the U.S. tour with Sleeping Beauty. She was nimble and fleet, as a princess should be, poised and incredibly effortless as she accepted her suitors' greetings in the arduous Rose adagio, where even the most accomplished technician is apt to teeter unhappily as she stands stock-still on one pointe and accepts a rose from four courtiers, one after the other...