Word: rca
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EVENING WITH BELAFONTE/MAKEBA (RCA Victor). Two of the best Negro singers of the decade combine to give voice to South Africa's sorrow. Singing in Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho or Swahili, they manage to cast light on the Dark Continent through the warmth and vigor of their interpretations...
BEETHOVEN: QUARTET IN A MINOR OPUS 132 (RCA Victor). This intricate work was written 25 years after the septet and sounds a world apart, especially in this crisp, exact performance by the Juilliard String Quartet. Technically, the Juilliard is superb; the pianissimo passages, for example, are feather-light and still warm, but the third movement, the "song of thanksgiving offered to the divinity by a convalescent," sounds curiously reserved...
...curt and controversial departure, John L. Burns nearly four years ago was suddenly out as president of sprawling RCA, even though his contract for the $200,000-a-year job still had more than five years to run. Burns has never given a reason-and neither has RCA. In the succeeding months-and years-he got the customary offers from other companies anxious to hire a top-level manager, but turned them all down. "There are not," he said, "many jobs available on that level." Burns largely dropped out of sight; he became a private consultant to several companies, served...
...other attributes to offer: he holds a doctorate in metallurgy from Harvard, worked his way from laborer to wire-division head at Republic Steel, became a partner in the management consultant firm of Booz, Allen & Hamilton and an adviser to 30 blue-chip corporations before joining RCA...
...strain on the severely limited communications facilities. This week, word traffic out of Saigon is vastly improved, thanks largely to the ingenuity and cooperation of three men - Director General Nguyen Van Dieu of Viet Nam's Administration des Postes et Télécommunications, RCA Communications, Inc. Vice President Charles H. Clark, and Time Inc. Communications Manager John F. Striker...