Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AMERICAN EXPRESS CO., fast moving into credit-card business, has picked up the 45,000-member Gourmet Guest Club, is dickering to get Esquire Club's 100,000 members...
...college enrollments will be doubled or tripled. The need for teachers is enormous; yet industries and Government outbid the universities for graduates who might become college teachers. And all too often programs to train precollege teachers are so "rigid, formalistic and shallow" that they "drive away able minds as fast as they are recruited...
...built-in horn), T shirts, buttons, dolls and ice cream. In Orlando, Fla. a campaign is directed at changing the name of a purple-and-silver train that comes through the town from West Coast Champion to The Purple People Eater. Record manufacturers are cranking out imitative disks as fast as they can make them, including Wooley's own sequel, Purple People Eater Plays Earth Music, Cuban Purple People Eater (in cha cha cha rhythm), The Purple People Eater Meets the Witch Doctor, Polka-Dotted Poliwampus (about a creature that eats Purple People Eaters) and Purple Herring Fresser...
...when he has played one fragment three times, the piece must end. Another Stockhausen experiment: Groups, a 20-minute work which calls for three orchestras playing simultaneously under three separate conductors. His work in progress: a piece for electronic and conventional instruments, which will allow the instrumentalists to play fast or slow, loud or soft according to their humor...
...tried to take over in a corporate fight. Usually he makes his money by buying stock cheap in a sick company, selling out after he has done his bit to make the company and stock strong. "You don't always have to do everything for a fast buck," he says. "I'll take mine slower." Landa has never been slow to get his hands on money. He inherited $200,000 from his mother, spent part of it studying psychology under Sigmund Freud in Vienna, playwriting under George Pierce Baker at Yale, law at George Washington University...