Word: careers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Full Life. Handsome, well-knit (5 ft. 10 in., 165 Ibs.), professorial-looking in his rimless glasses, McCone quietly but energetically pursued a career of public service while advancing his private fortunes, became a director of the Stanford Research Institute, a trustee of Caltech, a regent of Loyola University of Los Angeles, helped form the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, took up gardening, golf. First role in national affairs came when Democrat Harry Truman appointed Republican McCone to the Air Policy Commission, where he helped Thomas K. Finletter write the farseeing 1948 report on the need for U.S. airpower, Survival...
Only Clue. Starting as assistant conductor of the Odessa Opera at 16, Child Prodigy Richter decided at 21 to make a career as a pianist. He enrolled at the Moscow Conservatory, made a name for himself in Soviet music when in 1939 he played the premiere performance of Serge Prokofiev's Sixth Sonata. These days he gives as many as 120 concerts a season in Russia and the satellites. He lives with his wife, Lyric Soprano Nina Dorlyak, in a Moscow apartment whose telephone number he is too absent-minded to remember. When he is in the mood...
...language left even the brightest students in a difficult position on College Board exams. Their scores, even if good for second-year students, were not likely to be high enough to impress colleges. And in further changes, Middlesex now starts people on languages earlier in their school career if they wish--it is possible to start French in seventh, eight or ninth grades, and Latin and German are similarly pushed ahead...
...many of the 107 seniors who became members of the United States Armed Forces yesterday, the ROTC Joint Commissioning Exercises meant another uniform to put on after graduation; for others, it was the end of a long, parentally-imposed haul or the beginning of a 30-year career...
...could easily have been worse, and so could Silvana Mangano. Jo Van Fleet is first-rate, and Tony Perkins, a skillful young man who has gained his craft so easily that he may be in danger of losing his art, does the best work of his brief screen career. Chief credit belongs to the director, France's René Clement (Forbidden Games, Gervaise). He has done some of the vulgar things that the bankers believe the mass audience requires, but he has also been honestly concerned to preserve the passionate spirit of the book, the sinister genius...