Word: craftsman
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...years, the most eminent of U.S. women painters has continued to grow in technical mastery and emotional depth. Last week, at the Worcester (Mass.) Art Museum, gallerygoers could see the extent of her range in her first major show in 14 years-the work of a superb and unerring craftsman who has always walked alone...
...played by the pros-and he learned the hard way. Pro ball carriers knocked him cold time and again. Not until his third year did he really begin to solve pass patterns and develop into a star. This season, at 28, Jimmy Patton is an articulate, confident craftsman who is recognized throughout the National Football League as the safety man who has mastered every trick of the trade...
Climatically, historically and emotionally, the Congo is many lands. Even when the Congo's radios and telephones were working again, orders from Leopoldville would scarcely be heard, understood or heeded by the equatorial Logo craftsman, the fiercely independent Lokele fisherman or the Balamba villager of Katanga. Scattered through a land roughly the size of the U.S. east of the Mississippi, the Congo's 150 major tribes speak 38 different languages, observe a bewildering variety of rites ranging from lip tattooing to magic rain making...
...Three times before Sugar Ray Robinson had won back his middleweight championship in rematches, but the greatest craftsman of his day was only a floundering 40-year-old as he tried to regain the comic-opera title of New York and Massachusetts from a pug named Paul Pender. After losing a split decision in Boston, even the Sugar seemed to feel he was finished: "I just didn't have what it takes. I didn't do nothing. I lost...
...Salk himself. The commercial vaccine, he declared unequivocally, is only 50% effective (on the average) after a single shot. By simple arithmetic, he argued that two shots would be 75% effective, and three shots, 87.5%. Dr. Salk contrasted this with the efficacy of the hand-tooled vaccine made with craftsman care in his University of Pittsburgh laboratories: 90% effective after one shot, 99% after two, and 99.9% after three. Commercial vaccine, he said, can be brought up to this high standard...