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...Birch, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology and Chairman of the Department, is studying the effects of high temperatures and pressures on minerals. By measuring the velocity of sound waves in rocks under various pressures, Birch has used seismic soundings to help geologists understand the structure of the earth's crust...
Nothing Royal. Getting the summer customer into the hotel, though, is only half the battle. Coming from the center of the pie rather than the upper crust, the off-season tourist makes his dollar stretch a country mile. Many Nassau bars and restaurants close down for the summer, and the specialty-shop operators yearn for winter's big-time spenders. "In the winter they buy Royal Crown Derby," says a Virgin Islands china-shop owner. "In the summer, it's Heinrich." Social directors sometimes grouse that the summer people are unschooled in resort life. "They...
Psychological Crust. Rubinstein has long fortified his total embargo of Germany and Germans with gallows humor ("There are 90 million Jews in the world today. Why? Because there are 30 million Germans, and each reports he personally saved three Jews during the war"). He still harbors the dark suspicion that the presence of one vestigial Nazi dreaming in the dark of a concert hall while listening to a Rubinstein Appassionata would freeze his fingers into furious claws. But the jokes are worn with time, and the thriving German market for Rubinstein recordings has diluted his horror of German ears. Last...
...Germany and who have joined Rubinstein in protests against German musicians appearing in the U.S. For them, drawing the line at Nijmegen may have seemed a trifle shaky, but since theirs is a conspiracy of conscience only, no one objected to Rubinstein's plan. "There is a psychological crust that covers memories, and most people are afraid to break it after only 18 years," says Violinist Isaac Stern. "I could not and would not play my music in Germany or Austria, or with any German or Austrian citizen or orchestra. This is less pompous, I would say, than establishing...
...French paintings and a U.S. heiress for a wife. Because the Bavarian aristocrats have traditionally been less exclusive than Prussia's patricians, Munich today is one city in which the rival elites come together. Munich's jet set, composed of the nouveau riche and the ancient upper crust, shuttles between St. Moritz and Egypt's resort of Helwan. Its reigning beauty is the statuesque blonde daughter of Banker Miine-mann, "Antschi," who hurtles around town in an eggshell-colored Ferrari; however, many families with "von" in their names still prefer to drive Volkswagens. "Everything," sighs...