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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...love, sleep and die on city sidewalks, or in and around railway stations. Food that might sustain them is casually devoured by more than 50 million monkeys and some 50 million cattle roaming unchecked through the land. In the midst of poverty, there are polo-playing maharajahs who are among the world's richest men. And there are Indian millionaires who religiously feed ants to show their reverence for life, and lavish their charity not on hospitals or schools but on retirement farms for aging sacred cows. An estimated 7,000,000 Indians are unemployed; many millions more...
...father, who had also survived German internment (her mother had been shot by the retreating Nazis on their last day in Warsaw). In Paris, father and daughter picked up the pieces of their old life. Lydia enrolled in a dancing school in 1948, two years later was among the few chosen from hundreds of applicants for the Folies chorus, has been there ever since. Says Lydia: "It's not the Warsaw Opera Ballet, but I love it." Asked where she would pin her Legion ribbon, Lydia answered: "I'll wear it at work only for a State visit...
...Among all forms of communication," said Burnett, "magazines are the greatest single hope this country has for provoking thought. Yet here is what I feel. Never in my 40 years in the advertising business have I seen magazines generally so blind to their mission. Never in my experience have I seen such bitter and destructive selling as now exists, not only in the advertising business generally but particularly in the magazine industry...
...took copy from commerce and industry and moved it-for an annual membership fee of $25, plus a daily charge of $15 for transmissions-over printers installed free in newspaper offices, broadcasting stations and other communications outlets that permitted the installation. Today Muschel has more than 700 paying customers-among them General Foods Corp., Kaiser Industries Corp. and the American Heart Association Inc.-whose copy is moved daily to 17 nonpaying subscribers, e.g., the New York Times, five other big Manhattan dailies and the U.S. Information Service...
...concerto recalled, among other things, that at 39, Isaac Stern is not only one of the world's great violinists but one of the U.S.'s fastest-moving, farthest roving musicians. He often talks of slowing down to give some time to teaching, but he is now in the midst of a countrywide tour, will play some 80 concerts by the end of April, then pack his Guarneri and head for his second tour of Russia (six weeks) before hitting the European summer festival circuit. Last week Stern was not in the least bothered at having to play...