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...COMPTON Olathe, Kans...
...whistleable tunes but is nonetheless marked by a considerable genius. Last week, when the New York City Opera produced it, a sellout audience responded with a twelve-minute ovation, a generous part of it in praise of the ingenuity used by Director Frank Corsaro and Mixed-Media Experts Gardner Compton and Emile Ardolino...
After surveying 50 top agency chiefs on their diversification plans, Barton A. Cummings, chairman of Compton Advertising, recently concluded that the trend is likely to increase. Outside ventures have a powerful attraction for agency men trying to improve their chances for corporate growth and bring more stability to their all-too-volatile business...
...compete in the marathon. Among them: an American (Ryan O'Neal) who concludes that Methedrine (also known as Speed) is the breakfast of champions; a retired Czech (Charles Aznavour) whose government compels him to give the West his back, just one more time; an aboriginal Australian (Athol Compton), goaded by two promoters; a Briton (Michael Crawford), protege of a former champion (Stanley Baker) who cannot forget the onliness of the long-distance runner. Among the coach's Segalese utterances: "We'll run through pain to the top of the world...
...weeks before the critical test at Alamogordo, the Interim Committee, charged with advising the President on the Bomb and atomic energy, met in a two-day session. The committee -chaired by War Secretary Henry Stimson and including Scientists Vannevar Bush, Karl T. Compton and James B. Conant-recommended that the Bomb should be used against Japan as soon as possible. The objective, they also recommended, should be a "dual target," a military or industrial site surrounded by more lightly constructed buildings. The attack should come by surprise. The argument was that the U.S. must exhibit its new power spectacularly...