Word: specializations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...basis for the study of the history and literature of the U.S.S.R.," he said, "are the special libraries of the universities. In particular the enormous Russian department of Harvard University Library numbers hundreds of thousands of volumes." He seemed impressed by the fact that Widener contained "full sets of all Russian pre-revolutionary journals, complete collections of works of Russian historians, complete works of Russian writers" as well as "literature and periodicals after the revolutionary period." He also noted that American libraries also received emigre periodicals, usually anti-soviet...
...nearly 3½ days the delicate radio signal came bravely down from space. At last it faltered. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory's 85-ft. antenna at Goldstone Dry Lake, Calif, changed to a special filter and held the signal for a few minutes more. A receiver of General Electric's at Schenectady, N.Y. heard the signal intermittently for about an hour longer. Then it faded out. Some 410,000 miles away in outer space, Pioneer IV, the U.S.'s first man-made planet, wheeled on around the sun, but now silent forever...
...classroom expansion will let Andover raise its enrollment from 790 boys (30% of them on scholarships) to about 850. Not all the academy's plans involve construction and large chunks of cash; in recent years a broad system of honors courses has been instituted, and boys with special ability are encouraged to take exams that will let them skip routine college courses. Last week, deep in plans for improving his academy, Headmaster Kemper explained his purpose-to meet "an era of unparalleled rapidity of change with new ideas, new attitudes, and new techniques and tools, while holding fast...
...mean the fellow's name on first base." "Who," said Abbott, and they were off on a routine that became so famous that a plaque bearing the dialogue hangs in the baseball Hall of Fame. They performed it thousands of times (on several occasions at the special request of Franklin Roosevelt, who said it was his alltime favorite), once earned $15,000 for a single rendition. Vaudevillians Abbott and Costello joined forces in the '30s. Costello was the son of a Paterson, N.J. silkmaker. In younger, leaner days he had been a lightweight prizefighter and a Hollywood stunt...
Frances Langford Presents (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Fifteen years after she started flying around the world as the singing attraction in the Bob Hope troupe, Langford gets a TV "special" all to herself; Hope will be on hand, and so will Hugh O'Brian, Julie London, Edgar Bergen, George Sanders and Jerry Colonna...