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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Philharmonic-Symphony, conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos, played the first performance of Roy Harris' Symphonic Epigram. Composer Harris wrote his six minutes of music to commemorate the orchestra's 25th season of CBS broadcasts, used the letters CBS as his motive (he jimmied the letter S into the scale by using its phonetic spelling, Es, which, in German, also means the note E flat). The music was brassy, somber and overwritten, and seemed to be just getting under way when it stopped...
...apparently moved downward as the level of the sea fell, and the rate of change of sea level is fairly well known. In the lowest house sites, Dorset relics are mixed with those of Thule Eskimos, who must have eventually taken over. At the other end of the time scale, the diggers found dim traces of an even earlier people. Apparently the forbidding Arctic has a long human history...
...harrassing quest for money to support a scholar's project is often more tiring and time consuming than the actual research. Strangely enough, charitable foundations often award liberal grants to large groups, while rejecting support for small scale investigations. The unfortunate result is that many of the University's projects lag because modest sums of money are unavailable for basic equipment. According to the warning of the special Faculty Committee for the Behavioral Sciences, financial problems cripple the younger scholars particularly, for their work is usually not covered by large grants...
Recognizing that he could not serve Europe effectively without the good will of the French Premier, Monnet resigned. But he was still buoyantly convinced that in the end Europe would unite because it had to. "On the scale of modern technology," he told the coal-steel governors last week, "our countries have become too small, compared with the America and Russia of today, or the China and India of tomorrow. The unity of the European peoples . . . will be the reality of tomorrow...
...sports-car boom has spawned dozens of kits. Doepke has put out a 50-part set that assembles into a realistic scale model of the MG; Ideal has a Chevrolet Corvette model kit for $4. For more ambitious builders, Revell has motorized its popular "Big Mo" battleship kit ($4.95) with a ready-assembled electric motor. William L. Gilbert Clock Corp. has an 18-piece set ($5.95) that can be made into an electric clock in a short time...