Word: wised
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...takes up to 18 months to prepare; they were given five months. Each lab sent its suggestions on what to test to Washington for top decision by AEC Chairman Seaborg. Military experts fired off plans to Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. Actual programming was done by AEC's atom-wise general manager, Major General Alvin Luedecke, 51, and Defense's brilliant, abrasive research chief, Harold Brown, 34. At McCone's suggestion, Kennedy tapped Starbird for overall field boss; Starbird in turn selected Ogle to run the scientific end of the show. Since Eniwyetok and Bikini were uncomfortably close...
...Mayfair pukka, stiff upper BBC, Oxford, Cambridge, Yorkshire, Lancashire, West Country, Highland Scots, Edinburgh Scots, Glaswegian Scots, Tyneside Geordie, Northern Ireland, Southern Ireland, French, Mitteleuropa, American Twang, American Drawl, American Snob, Canadian, Australian and three kinds of Indian. He fools everybody. Everybody but his friends, that is; they are wise to him. When they call him up and a sweet old German nanny answers, they say, "Come off it, you old bastard." The trouble is that there really is a sweet old German nanny at Sellers' place, and she often gets an earful when she answers: "Voss diss...
...night doing the arrangement. Musicians came from the New York Philharmonic. The high-paid, high-caliber Hi-Lo's were there to do the singing. After 29 takes. Composer Adler was still dissatisfied. "It must have that ping. That's the feel I want implemented, band-wise." Take No. 30 was pingsville. "That's it." exulted Adler...
...Long and Happy Life, by Reynolds Price. The story of a Carolina country girl's love for a young man who often seems to love motorcycles more makes a wise and tender first novel...
...robot letters if they pay too much or too little. But the taxpayer has a period of grace before the impersonal and sleepless computers go to work on the entire country in 1966-and the IRS is using the interim to 156.8 psychological advantage. "As a word to the wise," says Commissioner Caplin, "I would say that this is a very good time to clean the slate if past errors or omissions are known. In fact, if I had a friend with doubts about his personal tax records. I would advise him to drop around to his district office soon...