Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...credit does not offer every capable student desiring to do independent work the same opportunities as would free study under the course reduction program. The physicist who would like to take time out to study a certain literary epoch, or the English major who might want to do a project outside his field cannot study in his own department's tutorial. Tutorial for credit is, also, essentially a graded course, and the student may feel less free to explore interesting sidelines to his work if he feels pressure to earn a high grade...
Composer Kurka, Chicago-born son of Czech parents, started on the project with Librettist Lewis Allan three years ago, finished the vocal score and 350 pages of orchestration before his death of leukemia last December at the age of 35. His good friend Hershy Kay completed the orchestration from Kurka's red-penciled notes. Loose-jointed and episodic, the opera introduces Schweik (Tenor Norman Kelley) as he is being arrested for "high treason," traces his progress through a scurvy prison and a madhouse, follows him into the army as an orderly. At the end he wanders away from...
...million) from his small office, which was once a sitting room for the adjoining ballroom-sized office that Ochs used. A polite perfectionist, Sulzberger plans no major switches in the Times's tried formula. "We're always making minor changes-we never try to startle." Major future project is the erection of a modern new home for the paper on a four-block-long frontage on Manhattan's West Side. Already begun, its first building will be completed in 1959, will cost some $20 million...
BUILDER William Zeckendorf will get $22.5 million loan from Prudential Insurance Co. for his Courthouse Square project to cover two blocks in Denver. He has put up a four-floor department store, by next year will complete a 21-story, 1,000-room hotel with 2,000 underground parking spaces...
...Russia has concentrated 95% of its aid in key countries it hopes to win. In Egypt, Syria, India, Afghanistan, Indonesia and Yugoslavia, the total Soviet program during the last 2½ years has been double the free world's. The U.S. grants aid only when it considers a project economically sound; Russia picks projects largely for propaganda value, makes sure that they are plain for all to see, e.g., a soccer stadium in Burma, a road-paving job in Kabul...