Word: technician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...part of the actors' lives. They began to suspect each other of stealing lines. Eli Wallach, playing Poskrebyshev, Stalin's secretary, exploded and complained that his part had been cut to nothing. "The audience would have a better show if they watched the rehearsals," cracked an amused technician. "There's more drawing aside and whispering here than I've ever seen. Probably more than there ever was in the Kremlin...
Born. To Cécile Dionne Langlois, 24, second of the four surviving Dionne quints to marry (the first: Annette), first to become a mother, and Television Technician Philippe Langlois, 27: a son, their first; in Montreal. Name: Claude. Weight...
...built a European reputation as perhaps the fastest-moving young conductor of his generation. In the five years since he made his European debut, he has conducted most of the Continent's great orchestras, has appeared often at Milan's La Scala and in Vienna. A superb technician, Maazel invariably impresses older musicians with the vast amount of music he carries about in his head and the maturity of his musical ideas. "He is not sensational," said Violinist Isaac Stern after playing with him recently. "He is a little better than that. He is good...
...perfection, graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1922, the same year resigned because ships were few and the Navy encouraged young ensigns to leave. Earning a master's degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan, Gordon joined G.M.'s Cadillac division as a laboratory technician. By 1946 he had become Cadillac's general manager, had also helped develop the gas-saving high-compression engine that boosted sales and laid to rest an old joke about the gas-eating Caddy.† Gordon likes to test his own products himself. Once, during an argument with another...
...days, everyone who entered or left the house was filmed. Separating the legitimate tenants from a recurring stream of Algerians, the police narrowed their search to a two-room flat on the fifth floor, rented by a 28-year-old French girl named Cécile Decugis, a cinema technician who had once worked in Tunisia...