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Probably Inevitable. By mating, the two German companies can offer a complementary product line: Thyssen (pronounced Tiss-en) makes mostly sheets and beams; the strength of Phoenix is in tubes and heavy plate. Merger was probably inevitable anyway: despite the postwar decartelization attempts of the Western Allies, the majority ownership of both companies still rests with the descendants of August Thyssen, who was Germany's Andrew Carnegie...
Pierre Boulez' best-known work, Le Marteau sans Maitre (Hammer Without a Master), was first performed for a public of more than musical specialists at the 1955 festival in Aix-en-Provence. The critics from the newspapers of Marseille who had come up for the festival reviewed the work. In Rencontres avec Pierre Boulez, Antoine Golea remarks that the critics were "very prudent, as if walking on tip-toes." Probably much of the audience at Friday evening's concert of music by Boulez, Horatio Appleton Lamb Lecturer 1962-63, would have understood their prudence; for whether one reacts initially with...
...leave for the U.S. Of ten research students in theoretical physics finishing up doctorates at Cambridge this spring, seven are going to the U.S. Birmingham Chemical Engineer John T. Davies reports that six of his ten researchers left for the U.S. last year. One Glasgow University laboratory team emigrated en masse, and so did five senior aeronautical engineers from Hawker Siddeley's advanced-projects group. Says one Oxford don: "Usually people are so anxious to get to America that recruiters don't have to work very hard...
Regarding degrees of orchestral discipline: Charles Munch would say to his men, "Messieurs, je vous en prie...
...that matter, why scientists are an unusually small percentage of the dark-skinned segment of our population. We need not wonder if there is injustice done to groups in America as long as our personal friendships are A-OK. But the fact remains that so-called Negroes are damaged en masse by the imposition of what I agree with Mr. Gillman is an artificial barrier, as, indeed, are the so-called whites, though their scars are less likely to show up in the simple test between "scientist" or "drunkard." This barrier, however, is not only in the mind...