Word: leonard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the hurly-burly of the international art markets, partly because its purchases were often choice but eccentric, mainly because it was just plain loaded with money. Blessed throughout its existence with a string of benefactors who left it both fine collections and huge bequests, including the $33 million Leonard C. Hanna Jr. legacy, Cleveland now boasts an endowment yielding $1.3 million annually-just $100,000 under that of New York's Metropolitan...
...Taboo. Editor Leonard Zweig, 36, ransacks the scholarly journals and attends all the social-science conventions in a constant search for ideas that can be turned into Transaction articles. Since social scientists have a habit of talking in professional jargon and burying their leads somewhere in the middle of their stories, Zweig has to edit heavily. But there are few complaints. Wrote Raoul Naroll, professor of anthropology, sociology and political science at Northwestern University: "It is startling to see some of my thoughts coming back to me in plain English...
...inevitable that one day Baldwin would get tired of being second in the concert halls and would try harder to improve its instrument. The result is the piano that sounded so good that day at Town Hall: Baldwin's new model, SD-10. Guided by such consultants as Leonard Bernstein and Cincinnati Symphony Conductor Max Rudolf, Baldwin's experts worked for ten years revamping the instrument's inner parts to increase its reverberation and enhance its timbre. They altered the length, size and layout of the strings, redesigned the bridge, which transmits vibrations from the "speaking length...
...attack that sin, which is precisely the one that the agency is supposed to commit, Fulbright called USIA Chief Leonard Marks before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The subject was junkets-with which Senators are familiar-specifically USIA payment for the transportation of 30 to 35 Asian and European newsmen to Viet Nam. Fretted Fulbright: "Doesn't this point to a possible conflict of interest that might compromise the objectivity newspapers owe their readers...
...FREE COUNTRY by Leonard Brain. 192 pages. Coward-McCann...