Word: technicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dulles' record of accomplishment was not a result of skill as a diplomatic negotiator. As the unsurpassed technician of the conference table, Acheson's performance was far smoother, and Dulles gave his predecessor full marks for good intention and did not claim that his own desire for such laudable goals as peace was any greater than Acheson's. But there is more to getting a peace than wanting it, more to working toward decisions than suavity and adroitness at the conference table. A statesman who wants peace has to find specific policies which will lead his adversary...
...living room. For the 50,000 TV repairmen who keep America's 27,150,511 television sets in tune, every call is a challenge to keep the client content and the repairman's honor bright. When special problems arise, solutions can be found in the TV Technician's Handbook on Customer Relations...
...Folksy Touch. As one of some 111,000 U.S. radio "hams" (his call letters: W9UG), Turner operates a mass-production listening post in a barn next to his suburban Northbrook home. With the help of a technician, three 35-foot directional antenna masts, eleven short-wave receivers (six are permanently tuned to catch Moscow, London, Paris, Seoul, Buenos Aires and Melbourne) and three tape recorders, he collects most of the short-wave signals aimed...
...slip for lack of publicity and promotion. He sometimes flies 100 or more salesmen to his Paris headquarters for champagne dinners and pep talks, keeps a sharp ear cocked for feminine comments on the quality of his products. Says he: "A woman knows more about perfume than the best technician...
...revelation-just as her camera technique had been to the cameramen, and as her flair for dress was to the studio dressmakers. "Working with Audrey is fun," said one Hollywood expert last week. "When you're working with her, you're working with a fellow technician...