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Still, it was the ardent, intelligent music making of Musica Sacra that provided the festival's best moments. They came in the final choral sections of the Magnificat; in the orchestral Suite No. 3 and the Cantata No. 4 ("Christ lag in Todes-banden") under Westenburg; and above all, in resplendent, moving performances of the Mass in B-Minor that Westenburg conducted on opening and closing nights...
...reason for America's lag in productivity and gap in balance of payments is that the U.S. has lost much of its lead in innovation. Not in a long time have Yankee tinkerers produced an invention to rival nylon or the transistor. U.S. scientists and engineers have brought forth some fascinating new products, including talking toys and maybe the Moodymobile, but the ingenious Europeans and Asians are being granted an ever increasing share of the patents...
Besides suffering from jet lag, Moroz is "all right and he feels strong," Zenon Snylyk, his interpreter, said yesterday...
...reports, Director Turner has called for inclusion of dissent in CIA analyses. He has also created an intelligence officer for warning, who has the job of scanning the horizon, looking for the unexpected, jumping into any situation. Much still remains to be done to encourage individual initiative. Promotions, which lag behind other Government agencies, can be speeded up. Usually when an analyst performs well, he is advanced to managerial level, where his laboriously acquired skills are then lost to the agency. A good analyst should be prized above all employees and rewarded accordingly...
...main source of the nation's economic difficulties, and that the shortfall itself is rooted in policies that have led to too much statism and not enough private initiative. Liberal or conservative, Republican or Democrat, almost all the experts agree on the causes of America's capital lag...