Word: technicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That does it," a technician says, and Frank handshakes his way to the door, purrs off into the California night with his waiting date. They may drop in on some of Sinatra's current set of friends-the Bogarts, Judy (Garland) and Sid Luft-or munch a steak with Montgomery Clift & Co. Frankie loves the clink of ice in well-filled glasses, and the click of Hollywood's oddballs in a well-filled room. But everybody has to go home, sooner or later, and the moment comes sometimes when Frankie is left alone-the thing he seems...
...cool, skillful technician, completely devoid of Latin temperament, utterly dependent upon his knowledge of engines and his exquisite reflexes, Alberto ("Ciccio")* Ascari finally hit his stride in the auto-racing heyday after World War II. He traveled everywhere-Spain, England, Argentina-and everywhere other drivers ate his dust. He worked up a fine feud with Argentina's Champion Juan Manuel Fangio. In Brazil one day in 1949, he swung too wide on a turn, hit a roadside rock, turned turtle and wound up with a broken collarbone, three broken ribs and three fewer teeth than he started with...
...former research technician for the National research Planning Board, said that Adlai Stevenson would probably lead Democratic opposition in 1956. "But if the situation changes, and Ike doesn't run, the Democrats' nomination will be worth more and Stevenson will have a tough battle on his hands at the convention," he said...
From Baku to Britain. Out of the bloody civil war and the famine years that followed. Borodin emerged as a young "Red technician." a microbiologist trained in Novocherkassk in the Cauca sus. During the first Red famine, he had inadvertently eaten meat which turned out to be the fried flesh of murdered chil dren. He had lectured in a church changed into a "Club of Godless Science" and learned that freedom is merely "perceived necessity." He was soon attracted to the secret police "as an interesting state institution." After the Chekists honored him with the title of "scientific consultant...