Word: technicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the Machine. "I am a politician," Taft once declared unabashedly. In a nation which always distrusts and sometimes despises politicians (while handing the responsibility of government over to them), it was an unusual admission, made without any qualification. Taft was a technician of government, a lawmaker, a man of astonishing integrity-but a hardheaded, practicing politician from the Midwest...
...between the writing of his reports to the police, masterminded the assassination of the Czar's uncle as well as two attempts on the life of the Czar himself. To this day it is not clear which side Azeff was really working for; perhaps Azeff, a great technician of conspiracy, never knew. In Austria-Hungary, Colonel Alfred Redl, director of the empire's intelligence, betrayed his country to the Russians rather than face exposure as a homosexual. During the ten years that passed before he was discovered and driven to suicide, Redl turned over to Russian intelligence some...
When the patrol begins, Sheldon doubts that he has more than a few coppers of capital left. Nonetheless, he prepares for his job like the technician he is, studying the terrain from an observation post, taking compass bearings, making map notations, and darkening his face and hands with cocoa paste...
Thereupon Milton and his optician brother Julian found a veteran camera technician named Friend Baker, who jiffy-built a stereo-camera by lashing together two standard 35-mm. Mitchell cameras geared to shoot "in sync." Early in 1951 Natural Vision, as the Gunzburgs called their company, began to peddle its process to the big studios. Fox, Columbia and Paramount said no; Metro took an option and let it drop...
With one of the volunteer's arms bared and a rubber tube wrapped tight around it, a technician slipped a needle into a vein and drew out 5 cc of blood. The donor's name and address were noted and he was promised a prompt report by mail. Of the first day's 415 samples, 388 were negative; the rest were positive or doubtful. To each of these 27 subjects went a letter asking him to return for further testing or to see his own doctor and have him send the Health Department a report. After...