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Digging Deeper. Periodically Pianist Katchen returned to his homeland for a recital. "My technique," says Katchen. "caused many critics to classify me as strictly a virtuoso; a technician who is able to race brilliantly through Liszt Rhapsodies and Chopin Etudes." As recently as 1951, Manhattan critics felt that he had plenty of speed but not enough depth, and Julius returned to his Left Bank apartment in Paris and more Euro pean appearances...
...would have to take back everything he had said in the past. Lindbergh refused, went to work as a civilian consultant to the Ford Motor Co. and United Aircraft, helped in the design of the Navy's Corsair. In 1944 he went to the Pacific as a civilian technician and in the course of six months flew some 50 missions and was unofficially credited with shooting down one Japanese plane...
...Twin-ing's Air Force-in common with the Navy and Army-does not have. "This whole thing could go to hell in two weeks." says Curt LeMay. Why? "People." It takes two years of a four-year enlistment to train a ground-crew chief, engine mechanic, radar technician or flight engineer...
...Belgian rifle had certain advantages over the .280 that less experienced M.P.s might not appreciate. "It has a butt-remember that," he rumbled. "It is very important when one has no ammunition left to have a butt on one's rifle. That does not always occur to the technician"-evoking a vision of the young Churchill swinging a rifle on South Africa's dusty slopes...
...within the last, breathless 1,000 feet. What was needed to conquer it? That was the question facing Colonel John Hunt in the autumn of 1952, when he took the leadership of a British climbing expedition. In The Conquest of Everest, Mountaineer Hunt gives a cleanly written, technician's answer, and describes the behind-the-scenes planning that led to victory...