Word: gross
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hurdle. Van's own plans include 45 U.S. concerts this summer and next season with 17 major orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Minneapolis Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony, the Boston Symphony. Estimated gross income next season: up to $150,000. He hopes to play with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Brussels Fair and again in Amsterdam, and with the London Philharmonic in Britain. He would like to devote more time to composition; so far he has written only two sentimental piano pieces, Nostalgia and The Void, but he is working on a piano concerto...
...Russia's gross national product, already second largest in the world, although less than half that of the U.S., is rising twice as fast...
...crashes and resultant 34 deaths in the last four months, the Air Force announced last week that it would soon begin to make structural modifications on its 1,400 SAC B-47d. Apparent sore spot on the massive (116-ft. wing span, 108-ft. length, 200,000-lb. gross weight) plane is the metal-twisting strain that it endures in the low-level atom-bombing tactic: the aircraft dives, releases its bomb on an upturn, executes a partial loop while the bomb describes an arc on its trip to the target...
...recession played a large role. Said G.M.'s "Red" Curtice: "The automobile industry did not cause this recession. It is a victim of it. The recession began six months before it got to us. It is historically the case that a small decline in gross national product produces a much sharper decline in automobile sales. This is true because the automobile is a postponable purchase. The modern car is built not for one but for two, three and four buyers. Most of the cars on the road have a large reserve of unused mileage. People are using up that...
...title story, the Old Man of the Sea is played by an extraordinarily antic marriage broker who enmeshes a young rabbinical student as thoroughly as Susskind did Fidelman. The Mourners tells of a gross landlord who, in trying to dispossess an unhinged tenant, becomes instead his brother. The Loan joins a man who desperately needs help with one who desperately wants to give it but cannot: they "embraced and sighed over their lost youth. They pressed mouths together and parted forever.'' Behold the Key is a vastly comic story of a young American whose search for an inexpensive...