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...former pupil reproached Landowska because she had noticeably changed her interpretations over a period of ten years. Why not? asked Landowska. "What would you say of a scientist or of a painter who, like stagnant water, would stop his experimentation and remain still?" She insisted on surprise and suspense in her performances. The "tragedy" of recordings, she remarked, is that they catch "only one moment, one aspect of an interpretation when there are a thousand and one others, always different...
...burst of activity in a company whose U.S. sales had been stagnant for years until Lesch took over, is what might be expected of Mr. Hard Sell. An accountant who rose through the international division, which rings up 53% of the company's sales, Lesch has personally rung doorbells to interview housewives from Bangkok to San Diego, has sold Colgate's Fab to Mexican villagers by rolling up his sleeves to show them that they could even use it to wash clothes in streams. His first act as Colgate president was to drop out of sight for three...
Such diversity usually pays off in today's kaleidoscopic economy, but Westinghouse's sales in recent years have been stagnant and its profits falling. Like the dinosaur, the company became too big, too contented and too slow-moving to change with changing conditions. It badly needed a prod-and it got a powerful one in Donald Clemens Burnham, who took over as president 15 months ago after six years as manufacturing vice president. Even Burnham, 49, professes surprise at what he has been able to do. Sales rose 6.2% and profits 30% in this year's first...
Abram Bergson, professor of Economics, asserted that Nikita was not so "hairbrained" as all that. He noted the five good years the Russian economy enjoyed at the height of Khrushchev's power, but admitted that recently the Soviet Union has been economically stagnant...
...CRIMSON revealed Saturday that as a result of a long dry spell and seepage of salt water into the Charles at its mouth, the river has divided into two layers: a stagnant upper layer of fresh water and a deoxygenated lower layer of salt water. Sewage drained into the Charles falls to the bottom where it decomposes; because there is little oxygen, this decomposition produces hydrogen sulfide. And hydrogen sulfide smells...