Word: paule
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...salaam in the direction of California and Compton College's President Paul Martin for the courage and ingenuity displayed in his attempt to use educational films and TV as one method of solving the current shortage of qualified college professors [Dec. 22]. In the face of the educational hornets' nest that has been stirred up by this undertaking, it might be well to examine the problem more closely...
...instrumented payload) of Sputnik III proved to the space-wise that the Russians had practically licked the initial problems of interplanetary flight. U.S. scientists reckon that the Soviets' Lunik, with only a little more speed, would have swooped past Mars and soared out toward the asteroids. George Paul Sutton, professor of aeronautical engineering at M.I.T., believes that present propulsion systems with a little refinement can send a space vehicle as far as Jupiter or even to Saturn, 750 million miles from the earth...
...same keyboard, the result is often music-making of high order. Last week Manhattan audiences had a chance to hear the best four-hand team since the late, famed Josef Lhevinne played with his wife Rosina. Occasion: a concert at Carnegie Hall by young Viennese Pianists Joerg Demus and Paul Badura-Skoda...
Chiefly because they were both schooled in "the sonority of the grand tradition," they find that their general approach to music is remarkably similar. Even so, they have problems. "Please, Paul," cries Demus when he is not getting enough pedal, "I'm starving." Occasionally, they get their signals crossed: once, each waited "for a terrible moment" for the other to make a solo entrance, finally came in together. But such lapses are rare, and none but the sharpest critical ears have managed to detect them. The reason, Badura-Skoda points out, is that most of the music they play...
...with Atrocities. The judgment may be somewhat exaggerated, but retailers from coast to coast are solidly optimistic about their prospects. In household furniture alone, says Paul Brandt, president of the National Association of Furniture Manufacturers, retail sales should top $4.3 billion for a 10% jump ahead of 1958. Boston, Atlanta, Denver. San Francisco retailers already report sales above last year, despite the record Christmas buying...