Word: fonds
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NESA's people are a sentimental lot anyway: they are fond of saying that the most magnificent electric sign in the U.S.A. stands in New York harbor, holds a torch of 19 lamps that create 13,000 watts of illumination. They had no hand in the Statue of Liberty, but they have done pretty well themselves. One member firm created the giant 474-ft. baseball Scoreboard in Houston's Astrodome, whose animated display when the Houston Astros hit one of their rare homers includes steers with the U.S. and Texas flags waving from their horns. In New York...
Parry's life will change in vital respect next year. For the first time since 1960, when he went to the University of Wales as principal of University College in Swansea, he will be living in the city. Parry is especially fond of the rural life--his favorite non-academic pastimes are sailing, fishing, and bird-watching--and he admits that "the saddest thing about leaving Wales was losing that salmon stream that flowed by my doorstep." He will, however, retain his house in Harvard, Mass., about 30 miles west of Cambridge, and continue to spend vacations, summers, and some...
Unfulfilled Plan. Rumania's cultural progress lags far behind that of its neighbors in the more popular aspects. Hungary's cocky cabarets are a fond font of Red satire and sensuality. The Budapest Night Club features sleek strippers and dexterous caricaturists, while the riverside Duna Hotel is a terminus for the 60-knot hydrofoil that plies the Danube between Budapest and Vienna, carrying 8,000 tourists a year...
...Reversals." Washington Sinologists also note an increasingly defensive tone in official Red Chinese publications. One reason: from Algeria, where Ben Bella was deposed in June, to Ghana, where Nkrumah was ousted last month, China's sphere of international influence has seriously diminished. As Peking's fond hopes of impending victory in Viet Nam have gone glimmering, China's principal party organ, People's Daily (Jen Min Jih Pao) has had to inject more and more caution about the "upheavals" and "reversals" facing the Communists. "Like a seagull flying in a rainstorm," the paper exhorted last week...
Music provides the Schmidts with still another form of diversion. Maarten plays the violin, Corrie the piano, and both are fond of chamber music. Visiting astronomers and relatives are often pressed into chamber music recitals at the Schmidt home. "If I play," admits Schmidt, "it has to be in an intimate circle. Only my best friends can really stand...