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...mother finally cured him by throwing a pan of cold water in his face). Raised in Madisonville, now part of Cincinnati itself, Neil was the youngest of three sons of a high-school physics teacher. He was reared on the run: from his earliest memory, all the considerable McElroy family energies were turned toward earning and saving enough money to send the three boys to college. The boys raised chickens in the backyard, delivered newspapers and advertising dodgers along the same route...
...confident that the Soviet goal is to produce hundreds of these undersea satellites," he said in a statement urging that this country build "at least 100 missile-launching submarines at the earliest possible date...
...Good apprentices," wrote Benjamin Franklin shortly before his death in 1790, make good citizens." With these words, Franklin set up in Boston one of the earliest of U.S. foundations-a ?1.000 fund approximately $5,000) to provide loans : 5% interest to "young married artifiers." It was all very worthy, but there was one hitch. With the gradual disappearance of apprentices, the Franklin Foundation ran out of young artificers to sponsor...
Bartok: Complete String Quartets (Parrenin Quartet; Westminster, 3 LPs). These six quartets were written over a period of 30 years, between 1908 and 1939. Even the earliest reveals a musician of size and depth. Impressively played, all reveal a dazzling ability to create new sounds about old torments, a gift for making strings do everything but talk. Sometimes, in the strange musical idiom Bartok invented, they seem to do even that...
...show are Bil Baird and his marionettes Snarky and Gargle. Under Snarky's eager questioning and Gargle's perpetual doubting, Baird traces the history of mathematics from the days when the caveman could count only "one, two, one, two, and a heap.'' He describes the earliest numerals, explains the origin of the decimal system, shows how ancient merchants used their counting boards, stages a computation race with an abacus expert, tells about the discovery of zero." Now I heard every thing," grumbles Gargle. "Zero- zero means nothin' Baird, and you say the discovery of nothin...