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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...line of attack which the Democrats mean to push hardest is that the Old Guard of the Republican Party took over in San Francisco to insure that Richard M. Nixon again would be Vice President and their skillful agent at the center of government in the four years to come...
This does not yet mean that contemporary composers are necessarily eating better than they were before the boom. Record royalties seldom come to more than 3? a composition. In the modern-music field, 10,000 copies mean a rare bestseller, bring only $300. But the mere fact that a work is put on permanent vinyl plastic makes its composer seem more substantial. One of today's most popular contemporary LPs, Colin Mc-Phee's Tabuh-Tabuhan, had a grand total of three performances between its creation, 20 years ago, and the time it came out on records (Mercury...
Sandage, assistant astronomer at California's Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories, notes that this would mean that the universe was expanding more rapidly a billion years ago than it is now. "If the measurements and the interpretation are correct." he says, "this suggests that we live in an evolving rather than in a steady-state universe." Even Hoyle is impressed by these findings, calls them "the most serious potential contradiction of the steady-state theory...
...afternoon, following more baths and massages, the executive will get a free recreation period. For the younger businessman, this will mean mountain climbing, for the middle-aged fishing or swimming, for the older a walk along a valley road. Later, all will listen to a health lecture, study history and contemporary events. Before dinner, the executive will be permitted to have the day's only liquor−but no more than two drinks. In the evenings, there will be lectures or chambermusic...
After observing the new guest, the hotel doctor remarked ominously: "Geologists speak of faults when they mean weaknesses in the crust of the earth that cause earthquakes . . . There are people like 'faults' who are a weakness in the fabric of society; there is disturbance and disaster wherever they...