Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...holder of a graduate degree in music from Columbia. Hired to teach instrumental music in Farmingdale, he persuaded the high school five years ago to let him weed out the best players from the concert band and train them as a jazz group. "I felt," he says, "that the standard band repertory was too limited and that we were neglecting the most important native music we Americans have." He assigned tyros to instruments that seemed to echo their personalities (trumpets for the extroverts, bass to the intellectuals who "don't mind standing back there by themselves playing"), made arrangements...
Skewering the Bourgeois. Suburbanite Odiorne runs through the standard attitudes of the suburban churchgoer's critics-the "genteel disdain" for the quality of his faith, the "elegant reservations" as to the value of his energetic pursuit of bazaars, suppers, plays, baseball teams, bowling leagues, discussion groups. For these critics, says Odiorne: "The Johnny-come-lately, making up the pulpy mass of this return to religion it seems, has several basic flaws which make him offensive to the intellectual bourbons of the cloth," i.e., his preoccupation with getting ahead in the world, conforming to his neighbors and raising his children...
Geological Whodunit. Behind all the excitement, which has sent Canadian oil stocks gushing up as much as 70% in recent months, is a geological thriller to rival any detective story. Back in 1921 Imperial Oil Ltd., Jersey Standard's Canadian subsidiary, tried to tap Great Slave's potential with a test well at Windy Point on the western tip of the huge lake far up in Canada's frozen Northwest Territories. The area was littered with natural oil seeps oozing from a rock strata identified as Devonian limestone. But as so often happens when oil-bearing strata...
...last week rolled its 116-in.-long, two-passenger "New 500" model, which it expects to start exporting to the U.S. this autumn. Fiat set an $800 price tag on the 500, hopes to accelerate its opening sales push in the U.S. (TIME, April 22), which sold 1,200 standard Fiats in the first two months...
...Ejector. A hay-bale ejector that can be attached to standard balers was put on sale by Deere & Co. Operated by one man, the ejector takes each bale as it conies out of the press, heaves it eight feet into the air and into a wagon coupled behind the baler. Price...