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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...precise and lucid; Ormandy's Philadelphia Orchestra is famed for its massive sweep and sumptuous sound, Reiner's Chicago Symphony for its fine articulation and meticulous attack. Last week the two Hungarians swapped podiums and gave their audiences a fascinating demonstration of how quickly a first-rate conductor can teach a first-rate orchestra to talk his own idiom...
Troubling the Audience. If Spartacus should prove the beginning of a revolution in Russian ballet, the Bolshoi Company clearly has the talent and technique to extend it. Most of the first-rate young dancers in last week's production (including Julia May Scott, daughter of an American Negro and a Russian mother) were unknown to the West. They were drawn from the corps de ballet on the theory that they would be less hidebound by classical technique than the older dancers (an exception: famed Soloist Maya Plisetskaya, dancing the courtesan Aegina). Lavishly supported by the government, the Bolshoi currently...
...news, the Commerce Department announced that personal income had edged down (though still above that of a year ago), and the Securities and Exchange Commission revised its estimates of capital expenditures for new plant and equipment. Last December SEC estimated that plant expansion, roaring along at a rate of $37.5 billion in 1957's final quarter, would taper off to $35.5 billion in first-quarter 1958 as many industries approached their expansion goals. Now it forecast a first-quarter rate down to $34 billion. Second-quarter estimate: down another $1.5 billion to $32.5 billion, with some pessimists even predicting...
Last week a Federal Reserve study of consumer finances showed that "while many consumers were pessimistic about business conditions, very few expected their own incomes to decline. Nearly three-quarters expected to be making as much or more at the beginning of next year; only one-tenth expected their rate of earnings to decline." Though consumers in 1958 plan to buy fewer houses, heavy appliances and new cars, the survey noted, they will spend more on used cars, furniture and home modernization. Retail sales for the year are 2% ahead of 1957, with a fat 7% increase in department-store...
...area, jobs were climbing again after a January dip until nipped by the garment strike, and upstate unemployment is edging down. In Long Island's booming Nassau and Suffolk Counties, which had been hard-hit by cutbacks in defense spending, new industry is moving in at such a rate that some 75 new plants are under construction to add more electronics, nuclear energy, plastics, clothing, to the area's economy. Peak unemployment hit 45,000 out of 675,000 working in mid-February, but now companies are rehiring workers. Housing in Suffolk County is 100% ahead of last...