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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rims. Of the chariot itself little remained, but among the bronze ornaments from its vanished sides lay the delicate skeleton of a young woman. She must have been (or been loved by) a person of high position, for on her head was a golden diadem weighing more than a pound, with beautifully modeled winged horses and lions' paws. Professor Joffroy does not think the crown was of local manufacture, but he has no idea where it was made...
...Caesar Petrillo, trumpeter-boss of the American Federation of Musicians, musicians are simply workmen who make more or less pleasant noises for a living. "What's the difference," he once cried, "between Heifetz and a fiddler in a tavern?" Last week Petrillo set up a little ceremony to pound home his point of view. Before him came Pianist Oscar Levant, penalized with suspension from the union last April for temperamentally failing to honor concert contracts, thus depriving supporting musicians of work. Levant's humiliation reminded Petrillo of another time when art bowed to business. "There was Menuhin...
Died. Michel Licht, 59, Russia-born Yiddish poet who translated the works of his contemporaries (T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound); of a heart attack; in New York City...
Free currencies have hardened most in those nations which worked hardest to reconstruct their war-shattered industries and to put their financial houses in order. Since Churchill's belt-tightening program, Britain's "free market" pound has risen from $2.35 in New York to close to the official rate of $2.80. West Germany's Deutsche mark has risen in value from 6? to around 22?, and is rivaling the Swiss franc for stability. Italy's lira, which sank as low as 915 to the dollar during 1948's fears of Communist election victories, is almost...
...only one of the obstacles that stand in the way of atomic power at competitive prices. But the breeder eliminates any possibility that the world's supply of fissionable material will run out in the practical future. Under the system of burning only the U-235, each pound of natural uranium, containing .007 Ibs. of fissionable materials, was equivalent in energy to about 18,200 Ibs. of coal. The breeding system makes one pound of uranium equivalent to 2,600,000 Ibs. of coal...