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This would be a far finer group if it would take itself seriously as a chamber orchestra. Its nucleus seems solid, especially the flutes, oboes, and several stands of strings. The remaining "passengers," which impede both precision and morale, should either rehearse more frequently or be eliminated. Also, strengths of both musicians and conductor would be best revealed in lively, small scale works. Fen it, was the exciting, soloistic sections that gained the audience's enthusiasm Friday night...
Cookies & Cards. Indeed, the protests have mobilized impressive support for the Administration. A nationwide group called YES ACTT (Youth Expresses Support Through America's Trains and Trucks), backed by the Junior Chamber of Commerce, the Young Democrats and Young Republicans, is working to fill 100 railroad boxcars with sorely needed supplies for the people of South Viet Nam, already has 20 cars packed for Christmas Eve loading aboard a ship in Oakland, Calif. To G.I.s have gone 35 to 40 tons of cookies from Pennsylvania residents, 150,000 greeting cards from one group in a New Jersey town...
Elegantly suited and vested, Premier-Designate Evariste Kimba sat on the front bench of the crowded Chamber of Deputies and tried to look confident. Three rows back, his predecessor, Moise Tshombe, tapped his foot nervously. As the Congolese Parliament met in joint session last week, about the only empty seat in the Palais de la Nation was the leopard-skin presidential chair itself: President Joseph Kasavubu, who could not vote anyway, had gone off to attend a memorial service for the nation's civil war dead...
...flame, burning conventional fuels, tends to blow out at supersonic flight speeds (above 720 m.p.h. at low altitudes). If it is to keep burning and providing thrust, the ramjet needs an inlet shape to generate its own shock wave, which will slow passage of air through the combustion chamber to a subsonic flow. Above 4,000 m.p.h., however such an inlet design could cause excessive temperatures and pressures in the combustion chamber, and thrust wouk be drastically reduced...
Died. Harold M. Bixby, 75, aviation pioneer and vice president of Pan American World Airways from 1938 to 1949, who as president of the St. Louis Chamber of Commerce in 1927 was a key backer of Charles Lindbergh's solo transatlantic flight and named Lindy's single-engined monoplane The Spirit of St. Louis; of a heart attack; in Captiva Island...