Word: talentedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...warden and to the occasional cattleman whose cow comes down with colic from eating shell casings. Bird fanciers, who in some states have gotten doves classified as "songbirds" and made them illegal to hunt, fail to darken the Imperial Valley dawn. Game managers have proved that the birds' talent for dodging, plus enthusiastic mating habits, keep the dove population constant, and there is no reason to deprive 100,000 hungry hunters of their delicate game. Said one last week: "I don't care if they sing like Caruso. The main thing is that they taste damn good...
Sinclair Oil President Edward L. Steiniger, 60, became chief executive of the nation's ninth largest oil company two years ago because he has a talent for finding oil. Supervising Venezuelan operations earlier in his 38-year career with Sinclair. Steiniger brought in 105 wells in 108 attempts during a three-year period, and located the Barinas Field that is one of the company's prime properties. Sinclair needs oil badly because it is in the uncomfortable position of owning far more refining capacity (470,000 bbl. daily) than production capacity (201,000 bbl.). Buying crude to keep...
Fulbright Country. Performers who go abroad for the Government are supposed to be the "most representative" cultural attractions a $2,500,000 budget can hire, and the vast array of U.S. talent leaves any choice open to argument. Until this year, the State Department seemed almost to look for trouble. A Foreign Service officer decided the broad policies, such as "send jazz to Africa," and then individual performers were picked from serpentine lists provided by the American National Theater and Academy, which picked up a fee of $110,000 a year for managing things...
...Local Talent. The new program closely follows proposals made by Roy E. Larsen, chairman of Time Inc.'s Executive Committee and vice chairman of the U.S. Advisory Commission on International Educational and Cultural Affairs, and Glenn G. Wolfe, director of the State Department's Cultural Presentations Office. Broad policy decisions are now made by an expert Advisory Committee on the Arts under Larsen's chairmanship; it includes such people as Cleveland Orchestra Conductor George Szell, Juilliard President Peter Mennin, Producer and Director George Seaton, Alley Theatre Director Nina Vance, Sculptor Theodore Roszak, and Manhattan School of Music...
...Illinois Symphony Orchestra are going abroad, and next spring Latin America will be treated to visits by two first-rate secular choral groups, the Robert Shaw Chorale and the Roger Wagner Chorale. All the performers have far easier schedules this year, to permit offstage meetings with the local talent for workshops and seminars...