Word: smoothness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pickering's progress was smooth and steady. B.S., M.S., Ph.D.-he got all the requisite degrees. He stayed on in Pasadena to join the Caltech faculty, get married to a pretty Pomona girl named Muriel Bowler and conduct cosmic ray studies under Millikan. In 1944, when JPL missiles and rockets had become sophisticated enough to require a cargo of accurate telemetering equipment, Pickering was the inevitable choice to supervise the work; he was an acknowledged expert in the electronics art of long-distance measurement and control...
...redoubtable Jim Walter Corp. of Tampa, Fla., and Modern Homes Construction Co. of Valdosta, Ga. Unlike other firms, whose skimpy financing forced them to rely on high interest mortgage money, Walter and Modern Homes carefully, developed lines of credit that enabled them to do their own financing. An affable, smooth-talking Floridian who is a wealthy man at 40, Walter carefully built up his company until it now has 150 branch offices and is the second larg est homebuilder (after National Homes Corp.), with sales last year of $30 million and earnings of $1,800,000. Last week Walter took...
...HYRC, which has been the breeding ground of bitter factional batties, last night's proceedings were unusually smooth and polished, the election lasting less than an hour...
...paper, looks like a five-finger exercise. Schumann wrote it when he still hoped to be a virtuoso, and proudly claimed it was one of the most difficult pieces ever written for piano. Horowitz, of course, reduces the difficulties of a "semi-quaver" to nothing, and brings out the smooth melody. As for "Arabesque," I heard it for the first time, and wished it were recorded more often. My delight was only slightly lessened when I read the record jacket, which said the piece contained two imaginary characters--the bold Florestan and the tender Eusebius--who represented the duality...
...Crucible without actually going to it (and if you haven't gone already, for Heaven's sake don't), you have to have savored a potato kugel heartburn. Potato kugel is a greasy dish made of ground potatoes, egg, and too much chicken schmaltz. Going down it is very smooth, but it keeps on insisting how good it tasted all evening long...