Word: feastings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...generation of space residents. Not content with this plan, General Dynamics' scientists also have their eyes, minds and scientific talents fixed firmly on developing spaceships (called "Probes") to explore outer space. Surveying such projects, Frank Pace is convinced that defense industries have seen the last of the old feast-or-famine cycle. Says he: "If you have a good staff, you can count on business far into the future. There is competition, but basically the decisions are made on the basis of competence rather than price." Pace is convinced that General Dynamics has both the competence and the staff...
Standing before an embroidered Star of David and a seven-branched menorah (candlestick). David Bronstein faced his congregation and began: "This is Hanukah week, as we all know. And we all know that Hanukah, the Hebrew feast of lights, has a special meaning for us." The meaning: that Jesus Christ is the Light of the World...
...16th century calendar from a Book of Hours made in Bruges, and included this week by Manhattan's Morgan Library in its display of choice manuscripts. Made to be used year after year, the Bruges calendar has the days of the week numbered alphabetically, with set Feast Days, such as the Annunciation to Mary in March, indicated at right. The "Golden Numbers" at left form a table of the lunar cycles from which Easter and the movable Feast Days can be determined for any given year. Below are delightful vignettes of contemporary 16th century life, showing cardplaying in winter...
...FEAST OF LUPERCAL, by Brian Moore. A book which proves that Novelist Moore's excellent first, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1956) was no accident. Malice, spite, envy and sexual frustration at a boys' school in Ireland add up to ignorance triumphant-and pathos on every page...
...without 100% Air Force payments each month. Nor will it be easy to get outside loans to replace the deferred 25%. Though full payment will come when the Air Force gets more money at the end of fiscal 1958 or when money loosens because of heavier Treasury receipts, the feast-and-famine aircraft business is such a questionable risk that few banks are eager to lend scarce funds. Those who do get interim financing may have to pay higher interest rates than other industries. And since the extra cost cannot be recovered under most defense contracts, it will also mean...