Word: enrico
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ATOMIC AGE "I Expect to Sleep" From Rome, where he was on a lecture tour, one of the world's top nuclear physicists launched a prediction into the suspenseful calm with which the U.S. responded to the news of Russia's atomic explosion. Professor Enrico Fermi made the obvious but often forgotten point that Russia's Alamogordo does not, by any means, give her automatic parity with the U.S. Quantity, quality and means of delivery are crucially important. If the U.S. keeps ahead in these respects. Fermi could see no war for 20 years...
...Enrico Fermi, a Nobel Prizewinner, left Fascist Italy before the last war, continued his researches at Columbia University and became a U.S. citizen. He was a top man on the team that put the first chain-reacting pile to work in Chicago in 1942. Last week he prescribed energy and vigilance as antidotes for panic: "American supremacy is predictable up to 20 years if we work hard. As for me, I expect to sleep as well as my insomnia permits. I'm a fatalist by nature, anyway...
What started the controversy was the draft convention's Article Six, which called on all parties to abolish legislation requiring prostitutes' registration, or "any measures for supervision or notification." The French delegation proposed an amendment, making medical inspection legal. But, objected Brazil's Enrico Penteado, such a measure would merely encourage prostitution by furnishing its; practitioners with "a Good Housekeeping; seal of approval...
...full of memories. Enrico Caruso still seemed to him a "semi-god." He also bowed to Basso Chaliapin : "What a stage personality! I would never undertake Boris [Godunov] after Chaliapin." To Rothier, singers are different today, although since his retirement from the Met in 1939 he has tried to teach newcomers the old ways. "Nowadays," says he, "there are very few great voices because everybody is in such a hurry to become a star. They win a contest by singing one aria - and they are stars before they are ready...
...wintry January afternoon in 1916, the Metropolitan Opera's Enrico Caruso, Frances Alda, Antonio Scotti and Andres de Segurola bundled into a train for one of their weekly performances in Philadelphia. For the top performers in the Met's golden age it was a routine trip, but one they always made the most of. This time, the party sipped champagne...