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Since the establishment of the Regional Studies Program at Harvard in 1946, the concept of a geographically defined academic discipline has become increasingly well received. The value of utilizing many fields of study to examine a large-scale culture seems to have much merit to those for whom the program is designed: people entering public service, business, journalism, and the teaching profession...
...furious" when he conducts his own works ("They consider it competition"), but "you earn more as a conductor" than as a composer. "Music," Stravinsky explained, "is an organization of tones-an act of the human mind." For him organization began at the age of eight. "I was playing a scale on the piano. I thought, if somebody invented the scale, I can change something in the scale and invent something else-and I invented...
Shippingport will be the first U.S. reactor to produce commercially on more than an experimental scale. When full power capacity of 60,000 to 100,000 kw. is reached around the first of the year, it should supply customers of the Duquesne Light Co. with enough electricity to light between 100,000 and 167,000 homes. It will still not be commercially competitive...
WHEN U.S. businessmen contemplate the peacetime uses of atomic energy, the talk revolves around huge nuclear-power plants to generate electricity. But while the nation's first large-scale nuclear-power plant has yet to be built, another form of atomic energy-the radioactive isotope-is already quietly at work in 250 of the biggest U.S. companies and 1,400 smaller firms, helping businessmen search out raw materials, create new products and make old ones faster, better and cheaper than ever before. Although isotopes are still in their commercial infancy, the Atomic Energy Commission estimates that industry...
Private credit sources have joined with an alumni fund at the Columbia Graduate School of Business to provide a unique part-loan, part-aid scholarship plan now in full-scale operation...