Word: donee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rich sound, and an occasional slickness and unfaithfulness to style. While avoiding the purists' contention that nothing of Bach's should be performed in an arrangement--after all, Bach did his share of arranging--it should nevertheless sound ideally as though Bach, and not Tchaikowsky (or Stokowsky) had done the arrangement. The performance, aside from an extremely mannered exposition of the subject, was polished and well-conceived...
...quiz-fix scandals (see SHOW BUSINESS). "I am one of those that never saw [quiz shows] ... If it was done, it's a terrible thing to do to the American public." The President added that while the Executive Department cannot legally take any action ("censorship"), he had asked the Attorney General to look into the scandal...
...space program under military command to get going. But the fact stands that civilians now in command of vital elements of the space program, notably NASA Administrator T. Keith Glennan and Pentagon Research Director York, do not have experience in the tough kind of getting-things-done that the occasion demands. One way to resolve the space tangle once and for all would be to set up a unified, civilian-military space organization similar to the World War II Manhattan District in which scientists such as Dr. Robert Oppenheimer developed the A-bomb under the get-things-done command...
...other perishable foods preserved by the glamorous atomic-age process of putting them in plastic envelopes and shooting gamma or beta rays through them. The foods looked fine, tasted pretty good, and they could be kept edible without refrigeration practically forever, because all the microorganisms in them had been done to death by radiation. The Army proudly fed irradiated meals to newspapermen, top brass, and 20 Congressmen. Last week, with some embarrassment, the Army announced that it was shelving a $7,500,000 irradiated-food plant at Stockton, Calif, (on which $1,300,000 had been spent...
...basketball. At S.M.U. he is a business major (C average), counts the days until Christmas vacation when he will marry blonde Cheerleader Lynne Shamburger, wears a complete wardrobe from his father's dry-goods store in Mt. Vernon, and grins at the standard campus gag: Meredith has done more for Mt. Vernon than George Washington...