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...will design the atomic world-the technologist or the architect? As the world's top atomic scientists headed home from Geneva, leaving heady hints of a new atomic age behind them, Swiss Architect Rudolf Steiger was ready with an answer...
...first member of Adolf Hitler's Cabinet to visit Britain since Rudolf Hess parachuted into Scotland in 1941, pink-cheeked Financial Wizard Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, 78, now a rapidly rising Düsseldorf banker, moseyed into London. In and out of courts and jails for five postwar years, Dr. Schacht now played the role of a cagey grandpa, beaming craftily, bustling to see old acquaintances, dropping plugs for his recently published memoirs, My First Seventy-Six Years. Interviewed by indifferent or downright hostile London newsmen, Banker Schacht had glib answers for questions. His estimate of West Germany...
...Francisco Examiner get as many irate letters on a single subject. Other papers across the U.S. have had the same experience. "People jumped into this thing with both feet," says Managing Editor Frank Angelo of the Detroit Free Press Reason for all the fuss was a syndicated version of Rudolf Flesch's best-selling (over 60,000 copies since March) Why Johnny Can't Read. Said one school official in St. Louis after the Globe-Democrat started its series: "I've never seen a book more discussed than this one. My phone practically rang itself...
Educators agree that phonics alone can be the most effective instruction in some cases. But Rudolf Flesch to the contrary, most children seem to need a combination of methods. Whether the modern school has hit upon the best possible combination is probably a question that could probably be answered only by entering today's pupils into a wholesale competition with their phonics-trained parents. In the Birmingham News, Managing Editor Charles 11 reported that there was some indication that the adults might not come off too well. Among the letters rallying to the Flesch banner, he noted that...
...eyes: 4,000 of their fellow townsmen streamed into Balboa Park's Ford Bowl for the city's largest symphonic turnout in many a season. Then they could hardly believe their ears: the San Diego Symphony played its way through a difficult program of concertos with Pianist Rudolf Serkin, and played beautifully. Critics, customers and Pianist Serkin all agreed: the orchestra had come of age. So had the conductor; at 39, Robert Shaw had made the difficult transition from a brilliant leader of voices to a topnotch director of musicians...