Word: technicians
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...Chinese, and he was born and educated at mission schools in Peking, "a thoroughly rotten and reactionary, bourgeois education," as he concedes, without coming across too abashedly. He speaks four languages, including Mandarin Chinese, and his work for the U.S. Army in the early '50s as a machine technician and then for its Criminal Investigation Division, led to his interrogation and imprisonment for Lao Gai during the Census of Foreigners in 1954. At the time of his arrest he was working as a cultural attache for a Western embassy (unnamed), reporting on rationing measures, worker's gossip...
Preiml, 36, is the Austrian equivalent of football's total technician Tom Landry: both leave nothing to chance. All his jumpers are tested for heart and lung capacity in repose as well as under stress, and he has even sent them to the Schellbach Institute in West Germany for a dose of will-strengthening therapy. It must work, since Preiml has at least four medal threats, including 90-Meter Favorite Karl Schnabl. No secrets, Preiml says. Except for his wonder wax initially developed by a Viennese glazier to coat windows...
Freshman Mike Bierer, termed an "excellent technician" by captain Bennett, and Reinaldo Diaz combined to whitewash S.M.U. in the initial sabre round. Junior Diaz has made a successful transition to the sabre division from foil competition, his forte last season. In the round-robin format, Diaz swept to triumph in all three of his matches...
...originally did not want to testify against his sister and brother-in-law but was convinced to do so by the FBI. When Greenglass testified against them he said he supplied the Rosenbergs with information on the atomic bomb, which he claimed to have obtained while working as a technician at the atomic research plant in Los Alamos, New Mexico. In return for his testimony, he received a reduced sentence of 15 years in prison, later commuted to nine...
...eight children, Sipple grew up in Detroit, where his father George, a retired pipefitter, and his mother Ethel still live. It was never a close family. After attending high school, Sipple ran off, working for a while as a television technician in California, later as a bartender in Texas. In October 1967, not quite 26, he stood among a group of 17-year-olds to sign up at the Marine Corps recruiting depot in San Diego. "I didn't really know what war was," he recalls, "but I wanted to fight for my country...