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...administrative posts beyond 65, most may not be aggressive and vigorous enough to do so. But many of these same men can then be useful in policy-making positions, where their accumulated experience counts." Sloan concedes that not all businesses have enough work at the policy level to absorb these men. For them, he advocates public service-not necessarily in politics, but in social and community efforts. There is, he insists, plenty of useful work that a man can begin at age 65 or even later...
Criticizing Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson's recent appeal to non-bank institutions to check inflation by buying Government bonds, Lanston blamed the market collapse on heavy Government deficits. "Our non-bank financial institutions could not possibly absorb more than a small increment of the annual increase in federal spending. Our non-bank institutions could not save the Government from its folly-if they wanted...
Indian and Mayan artists had developed the musical art to a high degree before the Spanish invasion, Chavez noted, and so were able to absorb the European musical ideas as they were brought over with the conquistadors and priests...
...song trailed the field by about five days, the company is counting heavily on Entertainer Allen to give it the TV boost it needs. A production push of the kind the hula hoopsters have been engaged in can send costs soaring to five times what they usually are. To absorb that kind of expense requires a major hit (like Purple People Eater), and none of the hula songs yet recorded seem likely to go that far. "It's beginning to look," said one weary A. & R. man last week, "like everybody got carried away with the whole thing...
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (New York Philharmonic, conducted by Leonard Bernstein; Columbia). Few top-drawer conductors are younger than Stravinsky's 1913 masterpiece, but Bernstein (b. 1918) is one of them. With all his life to absorb and assimilate the jagged rhythms and excruciating dissonances, he has achieved probably the most exciting performance of this work ever released on records. The blazing, barbaric recorded sound is up to the performance...