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...Cambridge's streets are 27 feet or less wide. On many of these parking on both sides and two way traffic is permitted. Assuming that the average car is six feet three inches wide, and that it is parked within one foot of the curb, this leaves about thirteen feet for two cars whose combined width is twelve and one half feet to pass...
...family efforts to steer him away from music. He spent eight years in a Manhattan cold-water walk-up trying to learn to be a composer and being psychoanalyzed (his Tale suffers from pseudo-Freudian symbolism). Bucci failed to attract real attention until he set James Thurber's Thirteen Clocks to music for TV (TIME, Jan. 11, 1954). Says Director Boris Goldovsky of Tangle-wood's opera department: "Bucci provides something which we have missed with most modern composers. The trouble with them when they write something for voice is that they make their singers speak. This...
Only "four to seven percent of European youth ever reach the university level," he said, as compared to almost 33 percent in America. In Switzerland, he said, those considered qualified for university work, are sent to special university preparatory schools at an age between ten and thirteen...
...work is, as the name signifies, wholly voluntary. In the older groups, from about thirteen through sixteen, the men volunteers work with the boys and the women with the girls, but in the younger groups, six through twelve, the volunteer may choose either boys or girls...
...teaching and counseling duties constitute a severe handicap to research. At Swarthmore the teacher performs in both seminar and courses, and this can result in a schedule requiring the equivalent of five half courses and two one-term seminars in a year, or an average of up to thirteen teaching hours per week. With time allowed for preparation, this figure may almost preclude a research faculty...