Word: experts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...members of his family gathered, stayed close at hand: Eleanor Lansing Dulles, his sister, the State Department's Berlin expert; Allen Welsh Dulles, his brother, head of the Central Intelligence Agency; sons John, a mining engineer, and Avery, a Jesuit priest...
...Retreat. On Duck Island, his sanctuary out of reach of Washington on Lake Ontario, Foster Dulles moved with Janet into a different kind of glory, as a sort of woodsman cosmopolite, expert cook and reluctant pan washer, heating hors d'oeuvres over a Japanese habachi, basting squab chicken on a spit before the open fire, sitting outside on the rocks sipping cognac, watching and identifying birds, staring out across the grey waters he had known...
...months ago Schindler listed a few of his unanswered questions for the Toronto Telegram. Why did Harold Christie wait several hours after he found the body before reporting it? When the Duke of Windsor, Governor of the islands in 1943, summoned a Miami police expert, why did he mislead him into bringing the wrong equipment by describing Sir Harry's death as suicide? Who told Sir Harry's watchman he could have the night off? Who washed the bloody handprints from around the window in Sir Harry's bedroom? Why was the pistol removed from Sir Harry...
Gnoli was strictly raised for his profession by his father, an art expert and critic. At twelve, the boy was required not only to identify art styles at a glance, but also to imitate them precisely on paper. "Father smoked so much at my drawing sessions," he recalls, "that by the end of the day I couldn't see him across the studio. He was like Zeus on a dais; you had to cut through clouds...
Died. Dudley Allen Buck, 32, exuberant M.I.T. electrical engineer and miniaturization expert, who developed the tiny cryotron to replace the transistor, was working on a cross-film cryotron (diameter: four-millionths of an inch) that would reduce a computer from room to matchbox size; of virus pneumonia; in Winchester, Mass...