Word: precisionism
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Died. James Ford Bell, 81, a milling executive's son, who in 1928 merged four faltering companies to form General Mills, now world's largest miller, as President and Chairman from its birth until his retirement in 1947 made it a housewife's boon by marketing a...
After 28 months of bickering. and breakdowns, of painful delays and wrecked plans, the U.S. Mercury man-in-space project had finally achieved its first objective: an American astronaut had been shot out of the earth's atmosphere and had returned alive. Shepard's trip, to be sure...
Yet when a moving passage did come, it was intoxicating. Most memorable of all were the closing bars of Ich bin der Welt abhaden gekommen where Miss Forrester leapt a tenth with suppressed intensity, then faded out as a typically Mahlerian falling cello line, blending with the oboe high above...
Dummy Accounts. The Res, according to testimony, used their inside position as specialists to set up an "underground business combine" that rigged markets in certain stocks, made the Res an estimated profit of $3,000,000 between 1954 and 1960. The Res would first arrange to buy stock at bargain...
Both of the orchestra's readings of the DeVoto piece evidenced rather hurried preparation; the strings especially often had difficulty agreeing on the notes. With the Mozart oboe concerto, however, they experienced no difficulties whatsoever. Ray Still, it is probably unnecessary to announce, is one of the country's best...