Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whatever Gould's eccentricities, they have not interfered with his swift rise to the top rank of contemporary performers. Now he is tempted to give up performing for composing; he wants ultimately to devote only two months or so a year to playing and the rest of the time to composing. "Before I'm 70," says young Glenn Gould, "I'd like to have made some good recordings and composed some chamber music, finished a couple of symphonies and an opera...
Last winter, on leave from Mount Holyoke College where he is professor of English, Johnston returned to Dublin to collect data for a biography of Dean Swift which he is completing under a Guggenheim Fellowship. Three years ago he published the autobiographical "Nine Rivers from Jordan," which dealt with his experiences as a war correspondent in the Middle East, Germany, France and Italy...
...modest rented house. In three years he has become a multimillionaire, the nation's No. 1 cattleman. As of last week, Rojas owned at least nine ranches and tens of thousands of cattle, all branded "13," the lucky date in June 1953 when he brought off a swift military coup and began hurrying along the highroad to wealth. Rojas has a fenced-off market for his beef: he supplies the nation's army commissaries, which not only provision the troops but sell to civilians as well...
...power behind the research race is industry's new-found ability to harness science and invention to production, systematize the search for knowledge by pressing the scientists into service in the industrial laboratory and project team. The swift spread of research has caused a redrawing of the traditional picture of the lone scientist or inventor experimenting in his own workshop and, with his own flash of genius, discovering a new principle and founding a new industry. Now task forces that may number hundreds are thrown into a project; with the help of such research-developed equipment as computers, they...
That is about all the cheerful news in the report. All the committees were worried about the swift growth of the atomic age. Each year more radioisotopes are shipped to laboratories and hospitals; more nuclear reactors go into operation; more "hot" residues are processed and disposed of somehow. Within a few years, the scientists point out, large nuclear power plants will be built in many parts of the world. Many ships will be atomic, many industries will use radioactive equipment. Therefore, many more people will come into contact with radiation...