Word: firm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hall. And then-poing!-the sound of string #17 (bass A-note) giving way on the Steinway concert grand. An embarrassed unease settled over the hall while a technician frantically made repairs. Finally, Horowitz completed the piece and responded to the thunderous ovation with four encores. Said the famed firm's president, Henry Z. Steinway: "Each time this happens I want to crawl into the woodwork." Soothed Horowitz: "It's like a flat tire-it can happen any time." The odds: once in every 5,000 performances...
...what firm did Margie's father work in My Little Margie...
...worked as a chauffeur, airline steward and gas-station operator after finishing high school. At the end of World War II, he went into the coin-laundry business, then a finance company, finally into real estate. He is now president of the Fisher Corp., a Florida development firm in which Nixon holds shares valued at $400,000-double the amount he initially invested...
That was the old and perhaps unanswerable question faced last week by the Israeli Supreme Court. Understandably, the court preferred to sidestep the issue rather than try to give a firm answer, but the case that raised the problem did so in a particularly interesting...
...feel the answer must come from the democratic process. A committee of students, faculty, administration, construction firm executives, and representatives of the art world should decide these questions. The committee would be called SFART (Student-Faculty Art). Its student-members would be elected by students in each House and its faculty members, of course, would be appointed by Dean Ford, (in keeping with traditions that transcend normal democracy.). Such a committee could handle these problems as they arise. In the meantime, on second thought, a stern warning from the Dean of Students will be enough to stay the malicious brushes...