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proim. A prime cut of meat in Brooklyn that too often tastes like hawss-meat. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Cheaters...
From the smart sidewalks of Belgrave Square to the teeming front stoops of South London's slums, an English baby is known by the carriage he keeps. Massive, super-sprung, often a flashy lilac in color, for the Mayfair nanny and the working-class "mum" alike, the Big Pram has become in postwar Britain a symbol of status akin to the automobile in U.S. oneupmanship. But at least one winter baby in England next year is due for a hand-me-down. As Buckingham Palace prepared for the first child to be born to a reigning British monarch...
...could get nothing to eat in the late evening. This was because she did not know how to go about it. And my son John found the icebox locked at night and was outraged. I think I know good food if I stop to think about it, but too often I do not stop to think about it, so I know I'm no great help to a housekeeper...
...last week's Washington meeting of the American Rocket Society, a 90-ft. Titan missile stood outside the building; often discussed at the meeting were other liquid-fuel rockets. These types are dominant in the U.S. and probably in Russia. Their great advantage: they work. But also discussed at the meeting was the progress being made in solid-fuel rockets...
Whole families often play with the Philharmonic. S. Carl Robinson, vice president of the St. Louis transit system, plays the second flute while his wife is a timpanist and his 23-year-old son a French horn player. The rehearsal schedule is heavy: six 2½-hour rehearsals for each of four concerts. What gives the Philharmonic its special quality? "They are amateurs," said Guest Conductor Van Remoortel last week, "in the old sense of the word-'people in love with something.' This group happens to be in love with music...