Word: modern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thursday, December 14 CHRYSLER PRESENTS THE BOB HOPE SHOW (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Bob Hope portrays a modern-day Saint Nick caught in a traffic jam on a California freeway and thrown into jail. With Bob are Phil Silvers, Ernest Borgnine and Wally...
...Crowd, Birmingham (1) 2. Nicholas and Alexandra, Massie (2) 3. Twenty Letters to a Friend, Alliluyeva (5) 4. The New Industrial State, Galbraith (3) 5. Incredible Victory, Lord (7) 6. Rickenbacker, Rickenbacker (4) 7. Memoirs: 1925-1950, Kennan (8) 8. Too Strong for Fantasy, Davenport 9. A Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church, Kavanaugh (6) 10. Between Parent and Child, Ginott...
Though Chapman has not been in combat since World War II, where he served with distinction as an artillery commander, he fits ideally the cerebral requirements of modern military leadership. Like the members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, with whom the commandant meets regularly as an associate member, Chapman is largely a product of Robert McNamara's industrialized Pentagon; last August he was given the Armed Forces Management Association's annual merit award for his mastery of management techniques in running the corps. Over the past six years in various staff jobs at the Marine headquarters...
...competition consists of four other computers ranging from the IBM 1401, which Dix describes as "old and uninteresting" and which is now used principally for printing output; to the IBM 360-50, a more modern affair which, among its other duties, analyzes data from the Cambridge Electron Accelerator; to the two IBM 7094's, giant computers which solve complex problems in organized batches, hence the title "batch-processing...
...hundred-seventy-six years separate the Mozart from Piston's Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra, completed last July. In import, however, the two are not so very far apart. Written in a thoroughly modern idiom, Piston's piece nevertheless has all the brevity, forward drive and essential lyricism of a Mozart horn concerto. Soloist John C. Adams combined a capacity for pyrotechnics with a sensuous pianissimo that must be the envy of all clarinetists...