Word: finalists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Biggest Prize. Pianist Anievas, 27, is no stranger to career-building contests; he won the Michaels Memorial Competition in Chicago in 1958, was a finalist at Brussels in 1960 (tenth place), competed for the Leventritt Award a year ago. Will he enter the Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow this spring? Says Anievas: "No, I think I should quit while I'm ahead." If he changes his mind, there is still another contest in the offing: the Van Cliburn International Quadrennial Competition, to be held in Fort Worth next fall, which will offer $10,000 as first prize, making...
...prizes were not enough to attract budding Campus Queens, the contest prospectus also promises, "Each National Finalist, when she appears on television, will be given an opportunity to pay honor to her college and community...
Project directors insisted that only pure coincidence had produced one finalist each from the Marines, Air Force and Navy. The big three, they said, were selected after 22 months of training and study during which scientists, psychologists and engineers carefully graded their performances. Topflight test pilots all, the astronauts dived into a program that included instruction in astronautics, ballistics, trajectories, fuels, guidance, basic aviation medicine, orbital flight hygiene, space environment, astronomy, meteorology, astrophysics and geography. Along the way, they were guinea-pigged into hot chambers and cold, wild rides in 20-G centrifuges and in disorientation machines that whirled them...