Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pinter s Error. Luck saved them from bankruptcy. First, a printer's error boosted the price on the cover to 60?. Then after the first printing of 5,000 copies had sold out early last fall (mainly in Huntsville), they printed 15,000 more barely got them on the stands in twelve cities when the Russians launched Sputnik I on Oct. 4. Within days, 95% of the copies were gone. Says Editor Isbell: "The Russians put us in business...
...Defense Secretary Neil McElroy ('25) philosophized about Harvard. So did Author John Marquand ('15): "If you have ever been to Harvard, you will never be allowed to forget it. I have found that I can get on very well with most people until they discover this error in my past." Wearily superior. Music Man Leonard Bernstein ('39) recited...
Skip the Change. An automatic change dispenser for cash registers which speeds up supermarket checkouts by 30% was announced by National Cash Register Co. Instead of the usual two or three times that change is counted per transaction (with an average 15% error rate), the new machine registers the change due, tells the clerk how many bills to hand over, send the coins down a chute to the customer. Price...
...been especially wary of them since his unhappy interview last month with Syndicated Columnist Joseph Alsop, who quoted him as saying that France's bombing of Sakiet-Sidi-Youssef in Tunisia was a "sad error" (TIME...
...artistic approach. Ormandy maintains a casual attitude toward his men, is quick to praise and slow to blame, has been known to accept suggestions from visiting soloists. Reiner is as tough on visiting artists (a current bitter antagonist: Artur Rubinstein) as on his own men. He rarely forgives an error. When annoyed, he is apt to reduce his always small beat even further, which once prompted a cellist to bring a telescope to rehearsal ("I'm looking for the beat," he explained). "To Reiner," says a man who has played under him, "the orchestra is like a piano...