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The unmaking had its unbeginning when elegantly eloquent Conservative William F. Buckley Jr. got to thinking seriously about one of his "semi-jocular" newspaper columns, in which he had "vouchsafed a paradigmatic platform, theoretically useful in any large-size American city." From there, it was no more than a few...
Worth the Agony. In the finals, performed last week with the Fort Worth symphony in the Will Rogers Memorial Auditorium, each contestant played the first movement of Prokofiev's Second Piano Concerto and one of two Beethoven concertos. A computer tallied the scores of the international panel of 17...
The winners get no pay, only transitory glory. As Mack says, "People get enough of a thrill just showing off." Of course, the American Guild of Variety Artists estimates that 40% of its members got their start on the Amateur Hour. Some of the richest of them flunked their first...
Nonetheless, the Russians have yet to learn another essential technique that the U.S. developed during the flights of Gemini 6 and 7: rendezvous in space. And the well-managed U.S. Apollo program is making such rapid headway that space officials still hope to land Americans on the moon before 1969...
It was the grand finale to two hellish weeks of elimination rounds in which 38 young conductors from 20 countries competed for a handsome reward: $5,000 for each of four first-prize winners plus a one-year contract as assistant conductors of either the New York Philharmonic or the...