Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parents ever faced a more heartbreaking decision than that which last spring confronted Rumanian-born Valeriu Georgescu, a Standard Oil (N.J.) executive, and his wife in New York. For six years-ever since being banned from their native land by its Communist government -they had not seen their two sons. For two years the letters they hopefully addressed to the children back in Rumania had gone unanswered. But when one Christache Zambeti (TIME, June 8), first secretary of the Rumanian Popular Republic Legation in Washington, offered to release the boys if their father would become a Red spy, the Georgescus...
...organization of 300 U.S. firms and individuals who do business with Venezuela. Its president, Lloyd G. Smith, is a vice president of Venezuela's biggest oil producer, Creole Petroleum Corp., an affiliate of Standard Oil of New Jersey...
...Stephen Power Parish, 62, moved up from president of Reed Roller Bit Co. to board chairman. A onetime roughneck in the Texas oilfields and a brother of William S. Parish, president of Standard Oil (N.J.) from 1937-42, Steve Parish took over Reed in 1925 when it had some 80 workers and $1,000,000 in assets. He built the company into the world's second largest oil-tool concern (first: Hughes Tool Co.), with assets of $24 million and worldwide markets for its rock bits, rotary joints, drill collars and coring equipment. R. G. Hamaker, formerly vice president...
...been concertmaster and associate conductor of the Boston Symphony for the past 25 years, his efforts in behalf of community and student groups have been immense. Unfortunately, Harvard has enjoyed his association for only a year, but in that time many students have discovered that the most exacting musical standard may be commensurate with great sympathy and humor...
Yesterday's concert again gave proof that the association of such men has borne fruit. A performance of Schubert's 7th Symphony revealed a woodwind section whose ensemble has reached such a standard that the duets and tries among the first flute, clarinet, and oboe resulted in those delicate tonal effects (unlike any of these instruments individually) which represent one of the high points of orchestral technique. That the string section did not attain a corresponding brilliance and body was not surprising. But they did achieve what is within the reach of the best amateur groups; that alertness which results...