Word: conductive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which RFC holds wide powers: an estimated $50,000. The moral hazards of this situation are recognized by George. He knows that he is walking on eggs and that a fascinated and not too friendly audience is watching him. Aside from the moral question, George has a rule of conduct which may pull him through: keep your nose clean. The chairmanship of RFC is his for the asking when aging, gregarious Charles ("Senator") Henderson steps down...
...Give Up." Flames burst from an auto parked in no-man's land. A woman screamed from an apartment next the jail, begging for safe conduct through the erratic cross fire. An ambulance seeking to rescue the wounded inside the jail hastily retired before sniper bullets from the trees. For six hours the night echoed with the unequal exchanges between 73 deputies and their besiegers, now swollen to hundreds of shouting, wild-firing volunteers. Once, the barricaded deputies called out a threat to kill three G.I. hostages, jailed during the day, unless the assault ceased...
Miklowitz has worked with Westinghouse since 1943 as a research scientist on government work. He has helped conduct a series of experiments to develop a stranger steel for military...
...first concert next month will be in Hollywood Bowl. Says Cugat: "That's a laugh, isn't it? When I was here playing concert violin I was fully qualified to conduct in the Hollywood Bowl. . . . But I couldn't get in to see the secretary to the secretary. Now I will get $5,000 and the manager of the symphony comes to my house with the contract. . . . You've got to be a personality. Even Toscanini and Stokowski owe part of their success to showmanship. And take a man like Iturbi. He has the hands...
...budget is paid off by tuition fees (averaging $120 a student), ticket sales to festival concerts, and gifts. More than 100 students are there under the G.I. Bill of Rights. Aaron Copland, Koussevitzky's assistant director, trains eight young composers. Koussevitzky himself teaches three people how to conduct. At weekend concerts he listens carefully to their conducting efforts. Says he: "I see if they adopt what I tell them or whether they not. Then we begin again...