Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Powell's switch: 1) Lightly as Negro intellectuals may regard Powell, he is a politician of indisputable influence. He has served six consecutive House terms, is pastor of one of Harlem's biggest churches (the Abyssinian Baptist, with 9,500 members), and, above all, has a demonstrated talent for bypassing the intellectuals and communicating directly with the Negro man-in-the street. 2) His ill-fated Powell Amendment to the school-construction bill (no federal money for segregated schools) and his battle for its adoption during the last session of Congress made the name of Powell a Negro...
Mantovani was born in Venice in 1905. He inherited his taste for the lyrical side of music from his father, who was once concertmaster for Toscanini, Saint-Saens and Mascagni. When Paolo was four, the family went to England on an opera tour and decided to stay. Paolo showed talent on the piano, then the violin, and gave solo recitals before settling into the salon-music business. Over the years he gained the respect of London's music world, began broadcasting, and became Composer-Playwright Noel Coward's musical director...
...much as $2,100 a year. N.M.S. also gave to the colleges the students picked (the favorites: Harvard, M.I.T., Caltech and Cornell) an amount, up to $750. equal to each college's tuition. But the more important boon to U.S. higher education lies in the young talent it has spotlighted, much of which it might never have seen. Among the 1956 winners...
...Stephen Lichtenbaum. 17, who. along with Buffalo's David Krantz. now at Yale, made the highest score on the various N.M.S. tests. The son of a U.S. Treasury civil-service worker in Brooklyn. Stephen graduated top of his class from James Madison High School, won a Westinghouse Science Talent award for a problem involving the theory of numbers. His major at Harvard: mathematics, though he may switch to theoretical physics...
Author Gordimer's talent is diamond-hard and diamond-bright, her craftsmanship impeccable. But the stream of life rarely flows recklessly through her pages; it is banked, locked and graded like a smoothly run canal...