Word: ratted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York's P.S. 100 is an ancient elementary school where Mayor Robert Wagner was greeted by a rat on an inspection tour last year. There the peace Corpsmen will undertake projects involving work with slow students, conferences with parents, and help for P.S. 100's disastrously limited staff...
...Rat Race. Three players alone preside over the audience of baroque music aficionados left behind four years ago by Wanda Landowska, the harpsichord's high priestess. Today's masters are Ralph Kirkpatrick, Sylvia Marlowe and Valenti, and their tight little world is tense with competition: vassal harpsichordists nourish the strain by running joyously to one master with rumors of another's poor recital. Valenti has little taste for this suspicious sport; he would, if anything, prefer to withdraw...
...York are concerned, Valenti might just as well have been out of town for the past ten years; even though he lives in the city, constantly makes records (53 albums since 1951), teaches at Juilliard, he gives recitals almost everywhere but home. "I'd rather avoid the rat race in New York," he says. In 1960, his records were withdrawn. Then last November, Valenti played to a packed house at Carnegie Recital Hall, and three of his albums were promptly reissued. Two weeks ago, he played there again, and now Westminster Records is ready to restore dozens more Valenti...
...recalls one scene that was particularly realistic as opposed to the stylized tradition of the time. In her role as a blind country girl, she had to grope along the wall of a cellar in which some revolutionaries had imprisoned her. Suddenly she drew back her outstretched hand; a rat from the woodwork had nibbled on her fingers. "Mr. Griffith was excited with the possibilities of a horde of rats, and photographed them covering me. But I guess the effect was too strong for a 'twenties' audience..." The sequence was one of the few Griffith had to revise before release...
...Rat Race. IBM is so big and efficient that it has cornered 80% of the $1.5 billion-a-year computer market. Among the rest, the scramble for sales is so rough that two of the top ten companies that originally began building full-scale computers dropped out, and the eight survivors carry on chiefly by offsetting huge losses on computers with profits from other divisions. Says RCA's Vice President for Computer Marketing Edwin McCollister: "In such a rat race, you have to be terribly lucky and terribly smart, or you have got to have a lot of money...