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Hollywood's big studios, after several lean years, were more interested in balancing the books than in weighing questions of art. And in fact, business looked encouragingly better at year's end. Three-D was dead, but the wide screen had caught the public fancy. And the policy, adopted last year, of producing only very big or very little pictures made generally for fewer and slightly better films...
When the buzzer sounded, two pilots, bulky in their flying gear (pressure suit, parachute, oxygen mask, survival kit, maps), dashed toward two long, lean F-86D fighters. In two minutes they were surging down the runway with a crashing roar, and two more jets rolled into position for takeoff. Before their wheels were fully up, the lead pair were getting radio orders and a fix on the suspect plane. Interceptor pilots can open fire at will against any aircraft they believe to be hostile. Identifications are quickly made in daylight; at nighttime, pilots buzzed by suspicious jets are quick...
While the University does not always make policy by looking at its stock returns, few could doubt that solvency is the criterion for many of its ventures. Nevertheless, the administration can at times lean over backwards to rationalize policy which is dictated purely by financial considerations. Such has been its technique in the most recent library controversy. But in spite of the attempt, the Student Council Library Committee has been able to show that no matter how it may try, or what it may say, the administration cannot reject the undergraduate plea for longer Lamont hours on grounds other than...
Beethoven: Fidelio (Rose Bampton, Jan Peerce, Herbert Janssen; NBC Symphony conducted by Arturo Toscanini; Victor, 2 LPs). Beethoven's only opera, which he reworked, shaped and worried over until it was as lean and passionate as he could make it. Its story-of a devoted wife who rescues her husband from a vengeful tyrant-is projected with all the heat of Toscanini's conviction. It was recorded in 1944 from the earliest of the maestro's-famed operatic broadcasts, but the fine performers sound through the technical imperfections...
...conceivable undergraduate situation; nothing was new to him. Yet his philosophy made him consider each situation afresh because there was different person involved. Members of the administrative board used to smile expectantly while awning Hanford's word on what second to be a certain case for expulsion. He would lean back in his back at the head of the table, a smile on his face, and say, "Gentlemen, lee's go over the facts again. We've got to be sure we are being fair." And the board would reexamine the complaint. "The students used to practically thank...