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...Italy's Public Instruction Minister Paolo Rossi stirred up a storm of protest from classicists by announcing that Latin will no longer be taught in Italian junior high schools. Said the minister: "The teaching of Latin renders a bad service to those who leave school at 14 or switch to technical schools. Those who later devote themselves to classical studies will have Latin courses at their disposal...
Joseph W. Barker, president and chairman of the Research Corporation, announced the selection and noted that Woodward, in becoming the twentieth recipient of the award, "joined a distinguished company including Vannevar Bush, Percy W. Birdgman, Ernest C. Lawrence, Bruno Rossi, Edwin M. McMillan, Edward C. Kendall, Samuel A. Goudsmit, and George E. Uhlenbeck...
Stravinsky: Les Noces (Vienna Chamber Choir, soloists, pianos and percussion conducted by Mario Rossi; Vanguard...
Italy, of course, has the world's foremost Botticelli experts. When the big news was flashed to Florence, it drew a dry laugh from the city's superintendent of fine arts, Filippo Rossi. "The picture," said Rossi flatly, "is catalogued here as a copy by an unknown student...
...experts are a cautious lot, slow to take sides in such controversies. So it may take years to determine whether Adams or Rossi really had the last laugh...