Word: starting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ranged in age from 13 to 60. Some of them were housewives, others were students, disk jockeys, dentists, engineers. But when Guest Conductor Edouard van Remoortel rapped them to silence and led them into Beethoven's Egmont Overture, housewife and teen-ager played with astonishing competence. At the start of its 100th season, the St. Louis Philharmonic demonstrated again what its admirers have long claimed-that it is the finest non-professional orchestra in the world...
...Fresh Start. In Charlotte, N.C., Herbert H. Baxter, a city councilman for 14 years and mayor for six, mulled over his defeat in a municipal election for six months, finally enrolled in a Chamber of Commerce course called "Practical Politics...
...From the start, four schools-Bryn Mawr, Haverford, Princeton, Swarthmore -refused to join the program because of the affidavit. Later, nine more-Amherst, Antioch, Bennington, Goucher, Grinnell, Reed, Sarah Lawrence, St. John's (Maryland), Wilmington-withdrew. Others continued accepting money under protest, hoping that Congress would change the law. Last summer Massachusetts' Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy tried to repeal the loyalty clause, but his bill was rejected 49-42. Future bills also face North Carolina's Democrat Graham A. Barden ("I have been signing allegiance to America ever since I was a Boy Scout"), chairman...
...population in the world is so busy building its future." On the same day, a crowd of 1,400 in Sydney watched the opening of a $3,300,000 plywood factory spreading over 14½ acres of onetime swampland; McCulloch Motors Corp. of Los Angeles announced that it would start making outboard motors in Australia; the Sydney Stock Exchange noted that share prices had risen to a level 33% higher than a year ago; and the government could say that unemployment was at 49,077, or barely 1% of the 4,000,000-man labor force...
...synthetic stones unless it becomes "economically necessary." The diamond combine prefers to concentrate on its monopoly on gems and natural industrial stones, developed its process to prevent any other synthetic-diamond producer from drastically undercutting natural industrial diamond prices. Despite De Beers' discovery, G.E. has a long head start, is improving its stones. It disclosed last week that it had developed a diamond material that can be used in metal-bonded wheels, a use that was not possible before. Ideally, Oppenheimer sees "an expanded world market, in which both the natural and the synthetic product could coexist...