Word: berkeley
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...machinery-manufacturing business since 1860, when grandfather John McCone started an iron foundry in Virginia City, Nev. His father opened branch plants in Reno, Los Angeles and San Francisco, where John Alex McCone was born Jan. 4, 1902. He studied engineering at the University of California, at Berkeley (B.S., '22), took his first job that year as a riveter and boilermaker with Los Angeles' Llewellyn Iron Works...
...flank speed in vast areas of science, and of all programs put through for the International Geophysical Year, its is the biggest and most ambitious. The Soviet Union has the largest (10 billion synchrocyclotron volts) particle accelerator in the world-nearly twice as powerful as the one at Berkeley, Calif., though it has not yet lived up to its expensive expectations. Russia put its first pure-jet airliner into operation two years and more before the U.S., and M.I.T. Physicist Jerome B. Wiesner, who helped develop some of the advanced radar for the DEW line, has warned that Russia...
...were by Paul Hindemith and Albert Roussel, and new works by some of the most glittering names in contemporary music were getting a first hearing. But in the second week of a five-week-long festival dedicating the University of California's $2,200,000 music center at Berkeley, the most exciting sounds came from a comparative unknown: Manhattan-born Composer Andrew Imbrie...
...Imbrie grew up in Princeton, N.J., started playing the piano when he was four. As a Princeton University undergraduate, he studied composition with Roger Sessions, won the New York Music Critics' Circle Award in 1944 for his String Quartet in B Flat. He followed Sessions in 1946 to Berkeley, where he got his M.A. With three years out for work in Rome on a Prix de Rome and later a Guggenheim fellowship, he has taught at the University of California ever since...
...lives with his wife in a wood-and-glass, stilt-supported house in Berkeley, composes in a studio tucked below next to the garage. When he wrote his ambitious concerto, he had scant hope that it would be played, but went ahead anyway because "I wanted to express everything I could." His "everything" proved to be quite enough for the critics. Wrote the San Francisco Chronicle's Alfred Frankenstein : "If it is all a total failure, the festival will nevertheless have been justified because it occasioned the first performance of Andrew Imbrie's Violin Concerto. It impressed...