Word: program
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SOUNDS OF SUMMER (NET, 8-10 p.m.). A double bill leads off with the world premiere of Peler Mennin's cantata The Pied Piper of Hamelin, narrated by Cyril Ritchard and performed by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. The second part of the program. "Old Timers' Night at the Boston Pops," includes Joan Kennedy's narration of Peter and the Wolf...
...high airport rather than in the capital. Then, 29 hours before Rocky was to have landed at Caracas' Maiquetía airport, the Venezuelan government asked for a postponement of the visit-most likely because President Rafael Caldera does not want to blemish his domestic "pacification program" by being forced to suppress possible demonstrations...
Whatever the prospects for lunar life, Cornell Microbiologist Martin Alexander feels that NASA's present Apollo quarantine plans are on shaky scientific grounds and hopelessly inadequate. In discussing the plans with those in the Apollo program, he says, he has heard such statements as, "Of course, it's a sham, but what else could we do?" and, "The public needs to be comforted, and the quarantine serves that function." Shocked by this seeming indifference to what could be a real threat, Alexander calls on NASA to reveal its quarantine plans fully and "to solicit frank opinions and criticism...
Charles Adams, 27, Washington University of St. Louis, held a job as a night watchman while doing his undergraduate work. Then he joined Del Monte in San Francisco, was called up for a hitch as an Army officer, later entered Washington University's graduate business program for Negroes. At school he helped to start a small investment company, was in the top 10% of his class, and won the award for the best dissertation. Adams is aware that quite a few recruiters are going out of their way to woo Negroes, but he disdains sinecures. "I want to join...
Curmudgeon and Gadfly. As an organic cure for the complex ills of great U.S. cities, Jane Jacobs' program was preposterous. By itself, planned diversity could hardly create a new way of life for urban slum dwellers. Given the economic pressures working upon them, and the present tastes of middle-class and lower-class city dwellers alike. U.S. city planners are no more likely to re-create old neighborhood living successfully than William Morris would have been in rejuvenating Victorian England by establishing a Utopian handicraft community on the banks of the river Wandie. No matter. Despite her mistakes, Jane...