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...unique cross between a private foundation and a federal agency, N.S.F. goes back to 1944. when President Roosevelt asked Physicist Vannevar Bush how to muster the nation's wartime inventiveness for "a fuller and more fruitful life" after the war. Bush, who headed the showcase Office of Scientific Research and Development during the war, recommended a federal foundation with a dual function: to set national science policy and nurture neglected basic research. Set up in 1950 as an independent agency within the executive branch, N.S.F. is governed by the 24-member National Science Board, appointed by the President...
Baaron B. Pittenger, Director of Sports Information, doubted Harvard would field an elephant varsity, and felt "the ponderous pachyderms" of Coach John Yovicsin's football line were the biggest things Harvard could muster...
...three per cent of the most recent gubernatorial vote, presents an extremely difficult obstacle for a potential independent. The difficulty is especially large because the time limit is so short. Since the early '30's, only a very few independent candidates for a major office have been able to muster this kind of petition support...
Trying to muster national support for his farm program, Freeman has traveled some 35,000 miles in the past few weeks, appeared repeatedly on radio and TV, talked eagerly to any and all newsmen, made countless speeches-including three in one day last week in New York City, of all places. He has carefully cultivated Congressmen and housewives alike. Even Charles Shuman, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, which claims to represent about 40% of the nation's farmers, warmly admires Freeman, although he is the Secretary's archfoe, wants looser controls for the farmer. Says Shuman...
...important," he says. ''I never think of piano playing -only of making music." Barenboim makes music uncommonly well - as audiences in the U.S. and Europe have become increasingly aware. Other pianists of his age and training may be his match in technique, but few young pianists can muster the depths of thought and feeling that seem to come to him naturally. His reading of Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 last week had an unusual breadth, a feeling of spaciousness, an easy-breathing pulse. It had its purely bravura moments - trip-hammer scales that Barenboim...