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...Marshalltown, Iowa urged him to visit their town "in the heartland of America." Invitations to make speeches poured in from an assortment of clubs, ranging from the Young Republicans in New York City to Rotary in Crossett, Ark. And inevitably, an invitation was on the way from the Chamber of Commerce in Moscow, Idaho...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Exchange of Visits | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

Politics reared up unexpectedly at Vice President Nixon's homecoming last week. In the crowd of 3,500 that greeted him at the airport, not a single high-name Democrat was in sight. When Nixon got to the Senate chamber to take up his post as presiding officer. Republicans stood up and applauded, but the Democrats present, including Texas' Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson, remained seated and silent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: The Freeze. | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

Summer music festivals usually meander through the hot weather months peacefully masticating a cud of predigested opera and alfalfa-flavored chamber music. A notable and daring exception has been New York's Empire State Music Festival, which five years ago pledged itself to new or rarely performed works. In a sprawling tent at Ellenville, N.Y., the festival presented the Eastern premiere of Stravinsky's Canticum Sacrum, the premiere of a ballet by Villa-Lottos, Sibelius' music for The Tempest and Strauss's Elektra, Carl Orff's score for Midsummer Night's Dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera Under Canvas | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...opening work, Scnumann's Aminor sonota, Op. 105, Miss Bales evinced a pleasant tone, but not a very large one. Consequently, she was often overpowered by the piano--a common happenstance since Schumann, a pianist himself, tended to favor his own instrument in composing his chamber music. Technically, Mr. Tucker handled his part most expertly. The over-all result, however, should have had more passionateness...

Author: By C. T., | Title: Violin, Piano Recital | 8/6/1959 | See Source »

...bubble-chamber picture (see cut), an antiproton from the Bevatron enters at bottom and hits a proton (1): out of the collision come one lambda and one anti-lambda particle. Since both are neutral electrically, they leave no tracks in the liquid hydrogen, but after a short, invisible career, each decays into track-leaving particles by which it can be identified. The lambda ( 2) turns into a proton and a negative pi meson, both of which go off the picture leaving strong curved tracks. The anti-lambda (3) turns into an antiproton and a positive pi meson. The positive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Secret Uncovered | 8/3/1959 | See Source »

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