Word: lastly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week's Washington meeting of the American Rocket Society, a 90-ft. Titan missile stood outside the building; often discussed at the meeting were other liquid-fuel rockets. These types are dominant in the U.S. and probably in Russia. Their great advantage: they work. But also discussed at the meeting was the progress being made in solid-fuel rockets...
Always Ready. Solid fuel can also be stored in the vehicle. Thus the rocket is always ready. Liquid fuels are so combustible and dangerous to handle that the)' must be pumped in at the last moment. This means a delay of many minutes or even hours between an alert and firing time, also involves costly storage tanks and pumps. In contrast, Minuteman should be able to wait quietly, year after year, in a cylindrical hole in the ground, then take off on a 6,000-mile flight on a few seconds' notice...
...years the Los Angeles Philharmonic has played concerts at the Hollywood Bowl, but has also competed with the Hollywood Bowl Association for guest conductors and soloists. Last summer both organizations made a move highly unusual in the music world, turned for advice to McKinsey & Co., a Manhattan firm of management consultants. McKinsey advised that what the two outfits needed was a joint director, added the even more radical suggestion that they consult an executive recruiting firm...
Ward Howell weeded the list down to six applicants, three of whom were interviewed by the symphony board. Last week Ward Howell's ideal org man of music was on his way to the West Coast. His name: George Adrian Kuyper, longtime manager of the Chicago Symphony, a sometime English instructor (University of Michigan), associate manager of the Boston Symphony and onetime amateur violinist. Kuyper, it turned out, was 60-ten years above the recommended...
...year-old Vienna Philharmonic is a patrician among symphony orchestras. Others may be suaver, more brilliant, more impassioned, but no other orchestra brings to 18th and 19th century classics the same air of joyous spontaneity. Last week, under Conductor Herbert von Karajan, the orchestra arrived in Manhattan on a 40-day, six-country tour. At each of the concerts, the Viennese played Mozart-Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Symphony No. 40-and to many listeners the effect was startling. Most Western orchestras play Mozart as if they remembered the 18th century only as the Age of Reason, give the music a cold...