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Princeton kicked off the concert with an unnecessarily dull interpretation of a selection from Heinrich Schutz's "Symphoniae Sacrae I." The major portion of Princeton's first half was given to a semi-dramatic treatment of selections from the opera "Richard Coeur-de Lion" by Andre Ernest Modeste Gretry. Despite the appropriateness of the light-hearted portions they performed, the choice was unfortunate. The Princeton Glee Club did not have soloists capable of handling the piece technically, with the notable exception of Marion Sleet...
Ikeya-Seki is now more than 55 mil lion miles away from the sun and gradu ally disappearing from sight. Early risers in the U.S. may still catch a glimpse at about an hour before sunrise if they look in the southeastern sky, above and to the right of where the sun rises. But it will be 500 to 1,000 years before Ikeya-Seki comes back into range and allows a check on current observations...
...captain, also feels miscast in this, his first big Hollywood role. "I don't know what the hell I'm doing here," he moans. "I have to take a tranquilizer even to feed my goldfish, and in this movie I've got to act with a lion, two monkeys and a snake. I'm firing my agent just as soon as I can get to a post office...
...hotly with each other for almost any promotion-from having their models used on TV shows to supplying cars for celebrities-but the fiercest infighting is to win a favored position with the big rent-a-car agencies. Here, some major changes are occurring. Chrysler has already won the lion's share of the Avis rental business from Ford, and Hertz by year's end will complete a switch that will make Ford rather than Chevrolet the predominant car in its fleet...
Some 49 trade journals, from Business Week and Product Engineering to Today's Secretary and Nursing Home Administrator, still provide nearly half of McGraw-Hill's revenues ($193 mil lion last year). But its information services and book-publishing divisions have been growing much faster than the magazines. The company's sales of information-consisting chiefly of news and marketing reports for the construction, oil, and nuclear industries-are almost ten times what they were in 1955. With the acquisition of S. & P., McGraw-Hill's information sales will rise another...