Word: trickyness
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To the graduating class of the R.A.F. College at Cranwell. England, Air Marshal Sir Richard Atcherley, chief of the service's flight training program, confided: "You are going to be passed out by a mountebank who never passed in." The Atcherley secret: on their first try for Cranwell, Sir...
John C. Beck's set appears astonishingly spacious for Agassiz. Under Beck's tricky and effective lighting it looked quite impressive, and would have been more so had not its walls looked as if they were made of papier-mache. Some of Beck's costumes are gorgeous, and generally the...
Physiologist Werthessen was doing experiments with baboons and their aortas to answer a host of questions about the effect of fats in the diet on the amount of fats (especially cholesterol) in the blood. In one especially tricky procedure he hooked up a baboon's freshly removed aorta with...
New Jersey's Robert Baumle Meyner is an eminently practical politician who knows he has a long way to go. "People," he mused one day last week, "keep coming up to me and saying, 'Oh, you're going for it, aren't you? You're...
Meyner's understanding of the delicate and tricky business of politics has converted New Jersey, for decades a Republican stronghold, into a Democratic state. This year Meyner gained prestige when his protege, former Congressman Harrison A. Williams, won by 89,000 votes against rugged Republican opposition and became U.S...