Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years ago. Under the firm and concise direction of Vienna-born Erich Leinsdorf, 44, who left the Rochester Philharmonic to become the City Center's new musical director, the brilliant score is beautifully played. The trouble with Orpheus is its new libretto, which seemed determined to turn this charming opera buffa into a crude opera boffola...
...Remarkably fresh after an hour's hard cycling at Milan's Vigorelli Stadium, Italy's Ercole Baldini clocked just under 29 m.p.h. for a new world's record, announced that he would turn pro in January and was promptly ruled ineligible for the coming Olympics...
...twelve-year-old Fred Safier of Berkeley, Calif. registered for his freshman year at Harvard. He wants to be a nuclear physicist, has already taught chemistry at the Drew School in San Francisco. Other noted Harvard prodigies: William James Sidis, who entered as an eleven-year-old at the turn of the century and startled the country with his mathematical prowess; A. A. Berle Jr., later assistant secretary of state, who went to Harvard...
...local cancers. Widely distributed over the body so that it penetrates much of the blood-forming marrow, excessive radiation can cause leukemia. If it strikes the gonads (ovaries or testicles), excessive radiation-i.e., by best estimate, beyond 10 roentgens*-can cause mutations in the genes, which, in turn, may mean deformities in the patient's descendants. Dangers, by sites...
...Administration has long worried about the dip in housing construction, now at the rate of 1,100,000 starts a year v. 1,300,000 a year ago. Last week it took four steps to turn the building curve upward again...