Word: trained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Scott has made much of a secret of his intellectual and esthetic bents. His Senate office is dominated by chinoiserie, and his house on N Street in Georgetown is a treasure house of the Oriental art he started collecting more than 30 years ago. Bored with the long train ride from Chestnut Hill to his office in Philadelphia, Scott, then a lawyer, started teaching himself Japanese grammar. As often happens with students of that subtle tongue, Scott found that a taste for Japanese art quickly followed. "Mrs. Scott was slightly appalled at first at all the junk...
Erected at a cost of $6,000,000, the fair was not without its problems. The four-car miniature railroad train proved 2 in. too tall for its costly, covered wooden bridge, and the wildlife preserve through which it passes had been enclosed with low cattle fences-though the caribou inside can jump like kangaroos. The fair's bearded, ebullient president, electric-company executive Don Vogwill, 43, still has not figured out what to do about the enclosure's moose population: during rutting season, a hostile, amorous or plain myopic bull moose could knock the tiny train...
...phonographs and TV sets. "Professional" is no longer a term of derogation; it is a synonym for superb. No longer does the golf pro come in the back door of the country club; he may even own the club. The professional baseball player no longer travels coach on a train; he flies by jet. It is no longer a shameful act for a Bill Bradley -a banker's son, an Ivy Leaguer, a Rhodes scholar, a student of philosophy, politics and economics-to sign a pro basketball contract. Not when the New York Knickerbockers are willing...
...planes to begin with, and well over half that number have been lost in the war, Russia obviously is providing new planes to make up for at least part of the losses. U.S. intelligence is divided on the means used to get them to Hanoi. Most likely: either by train through Red China or by sea through the port of Haiphong. However they come, though, their life expectancy, once in the air, is very short...
...across San Francisco Bay and as high-speed gunboats to hunt down Viet Cong in the Mekong Delta. It has just sold its first two commercial craft to an Alaska firm that will use them to supply offshore drilling operations. Using the hover principle on land, a French hover train, suspended above a monorail by a thin cushion of air, has already reached speeds of 190 m.p.h...