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Midway through the six-hour session, the class adjourns to the dining room for sandwiches and coffee and Piatigorsky's reminiscences from nearly 50 years of concertizing. When a pupil complains about preperformance jitters, he confides that he himself has found no easy remedy: "I try looking in the mirror and saying 'You're the greatest cellist in the world.' " But alas, he adds sadly, "I don't believe me." Or he will tell of the evening he dined with Amateur Fiddler Albert Einstein...
General Motors President Roche himself ended the six-hour hearings. After consulting with Theodore C. Sorensen, President Kennedy's onetime aide and Roche's blue-ribbon special counsel for the hearing, he returned to the witness chair to make a second apology. Said he, in a statement aimed as much at his own underlings as at the Senators or the public: "It will not be our policy in the future to undertake investigation of those who speak or write critically of our products...
Defects in the present system justify the change. The current program requires either a six-hour general examination or a one-hour oral. The written exam is administered only to non-honors concentrators, in spring of senior year. It is subdivided into a general and a special section--the former assessing the student's general comprehension and the latter testing his knowledge of one of the four areas of specialization...
...that "many concentrators choose to do honors because it is simply 'easier' to take a full course during the year in which the only requirement is a long paper than it would be to take the normal course load and in addition have to prepare for and take a six-hour exam...
...chartered a couple of airliners to bring 42 Maryland Republicans to Manhattan for lunch, won a barely hedged endorsement from Baltimore's Mayor Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin: "Until I find a better qualified man, I'm for Governor Rockefeller!" After that, Rocky jet-sped to Miami for a six-hour stay, rocketed back to New York for a speech before the A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention, shot out to St. Louis for a speech to the city's press club...