Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feed talent into his championship club, Kutis has a farm system of three teams (one for adults, one for teenagers, one for youngsters from seven to ten). Branching out, ex-Amateur Infielder Kutis also sponsors 41 bowling teams, six baseball teams, two girls' softball teams, and one girls' basketball team. In all it costs him $15,000 a year...
...technical difficulties as a seven-year-old prodigy in Dnepropetrovsk, was soon tagged as a good cultural investment, entered the Moscow Conservatory to study under Abram Yampolsky. In 1951 he burst spectacularly on the international musical scene by winning Belgium's Queen Elisabeth Concours against the best young talent of the West. Now married to Elizabeth Gilels, younger sister of famed Pianist Emil Gilels and a fine violinist in her own right, Kogan is something of a musical hero in Russia. To the impressed men of the Boston string section last week, he seemed to lack some...
...makers of Sputnik are preparing another aerial challenge to the West: the world's biggest commercial air fleet. By pumping cash and talent into a crash drive to improve Soviet Russia's 1,000-plane Aeroflot, Nikita Khrushchev hopes to make it another impressive display of the achievements of Soviet technology. Says the U.S. Air Transport Association's President Stuart Tipton: "Aeroflot is visibly preparing to challenge the supremacy of Western carriers. An effective Russian civil airline will facilitate Russia's economic penetration elsewhere, serve as a vehicle for political influence and act as an effective...
Many of them go about their appointed tasks in spick-and-span, air-conditioned surroundings as clean as a kitchen, as cloistered as a scientific laboratory. A rare marriage of scientific talent and hard-headed business know-how, General Dynamics employs one scientist for every five workers, has a roster of consultants that includes such greats as Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb, and Dr. Theodore von Karman, Caltech's brilliant mathematician and aerodynamicist...
...relative power of the two plays in a way simply reflects the relative force of Thomas Wolfe and Sherwood Anderson--Wolfe a chaotic, massive, but overwhelmingly vital power, and Anderson a smaller, more controlled talent. Whereas Angel as a book has the solid core but lacks shape, Winesburg, despite its wellshaped phrases, has a weaker core. Therefore a stage craftsman can, by pruning and shaping, transfer and even intensify much of Thomas Wolfe; the only important element lost in making Angel into a play was the visible stagnation and oppressive boredom, which are communicable far more easily in a long...