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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Today Cessna accounts for 53.9% of this market. This fall Cessna, which now manufactures seven private planes ranging in price from $7,000 to $60,000, will introduce an eighth, the Cessna 210, in hopes of grabbing an even bigger share of the market. The 210 is the first high-wing, single-engine private craft with a retractable landing gear. It cruises at 190 m.p.h. Price: about...
...Price of Alaska. Why is Wall Street intrigued? Hollywood has adjusted to the threat of TV far better than anyone expected. Box-office receipts have dropped some 20% since the high of 1946, but moviemen expect attendance to level off at its present 40 million a week. Though no one knows exactly how many pictures Hollywood will produce this year, the total will probably be about 250, far below the 600 of Hollywood's heyday, but hardly the output of a dying industry. Twentieth Century-Fox says that it is "enjoying the greatest production spurt in 13 years...
...make a landfall-the first in 497 days-on tiny, tide-swept Elephant Island. Then with five men, he set off on one of the most remarkable small-boat voyages ever recorded. In 14 days he sailed a 22-ft. boat 800 miles through incessant gales and 90-ft. high waves to the west coast of South Georgia. Impossible? But there was the next leg of the journey: scrambling 29 miles across the island's glaciers to reach an east-coast whaling station. They did it in 28 hours. When they tottered into town, the whalers burst into tears...
Tournament of Champions (NBC, 6-7 p.m.). The windup of the high-money ($40,000) invitational golf tournament at Las Vegas, with such shooters as Masters Champion Art Wall Jr., Arnold Palmer, Gene Littler and Gary Middlecoff gunning for the green...
Although the rest of the Requiem never regains the magnificence of this opening movement, there are other high points, including the tender "Sing with the Spirit," the moving "Walk as Children of Light," and the virtuosic "Sing unto Him." Throughout the piece, Thompson demonstrates his absolute command of the choral idiom, and ability to produce a variety of effects without lapsing into mere showiness. His cadences perhaps lean too heavily on the received value of a rich pianissimo close, but, for the most part he does not substitute sound effects for more serious and difficult musical tasks, but uses...