Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these matters Twirckoff reminded me of Richard Amsterdam, the socially ambitious protagonist of Remember Me to God, the best-selling Harvard novel of a few years ago. But the basic difference between Richard Amsterdam and Mirsky's Twirckoff is more important than their surface similarities. Richard Amsterdam was a product of the class-conscious '30s; his pudding is Hasty Pudding. On the other hand, Twirckoff is an authentic Problem Child of Our Time. He is a sort of Jewish Holden Caulfield worried more about who be is than where he is climbing...
...formed a 43-piece U.S.S.R. Jazz Band, released top Trumpeter Andrei Gorin from prison (his crime: insulting a Communist Party official), ordered him onto the bandstand. Then, as abruptly as it began, the jazz era died. The downbeater: Stalin, who ordered dzhaz outlawed in 1929 as ''a product of bourgeois degeneration...
...fight. Composer Aram (Sabre Dance) Khatchaturian admitted a personal preference for the "modern music'' of Duke Ellington. In Soviet Culture, organ of the Culture Ministry, Bandmaster Leonid Utesov made it almost official: ''Jazz is not a synonym for imperialism, and the saxophone is not a product of colonialism." There is no reason why the Soviet Union should consider jazz decadent and bourgeois, said Utesov. "Socalled Dixieland existed in Odessa prior to New Orleans...
...shots. To provide an expert answer, the Journal selected Dr. Herbert Ratner, health commissioner of Oak Park, Ill., who has been attacking the Salk vaccine ever since it was released in 1955. Ratner wrote that it is "generally recognized" that Salk vaccine is ineffective, because it is "an unstandardized product of an unstandardized process...
Cessna, which has long made hydraulic equipment for farm machinery, this month will start up a new hydraulics plant in Glenrothes, Scotland. It is expanding the product line of Aircraft Radio Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary in Boonton, N.J., to include radios for all size airplanes. Last year the company bought out a propeller maker, Dayton's McCauley Industrial Corp. Foreign sales accounted for 19% of Cessna's private-plane airplane sales in 1960, and it expects even bigger foreign sales in the years ahead. To cash in on this market, Cessna last year bought a 49% interest...