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...rock'n'roll or singing commercials mar its well-mannered purr of good music, mostly classical. But as WQXR reaped prestige, it also reaped advertisers-so many, in fact, that its listeners began to complain. One of the complainants: Listener No. 1, Times Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger. Upshot: this season WQXR has invoked what it believes to be the first commercial cutback in broadcasting history, is eliminating all one-minute spots following sponsored programs (representing a $150,000 annual "loss"), also will carry only one brief commercial in the two hours on Saturday nights when the Boston Symphony...
...music, conversation, the grapple of my intelligence with fresher ones. All this I can sweeten with a kiss, but I cannot saturate and spoil it with fifty thousand . . . Beware. When all the love has gone out of me, I am remorseless; I hurl the truth about like destroying lightning." Upshot: Alice Lockett married a physician...
...cool remorselessness, Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell ticked off the consequences of the Suez war-"the blocking of the canal, the cutting of the pipelines, the strain on the pound, the introduction of petrol rationing,* the check to industrial expansion, a tremendous blow to our reputation in the world." The upshot, needled Gaitskell, was that "we are now forced to accept [from Egypt] terms far worse than those demanded earlier." Worse yet, the U.S. had supplanted Britain as the dominant power in the Middle East. But, added the Opposition leader, in a final twist of the knife...
After these seven crowded years - there would be 40 weeks in each academic year instead of the present 32 - additional internships or residencies, though desirable, would be optional. Upshot of the plan: after graduation from high school at the U.S. average age of 18, the aspiring M.D. would be ready for practice at 25, cutting two years from medical education. More important, the plan's sponsors hope, he would still feel free to go into research in his most imaginative and productive years...
Milk Your Neighbor. In its trade with the satellites, Russia has consistently milked its unhappy neighbors. It overvalues its ruble to set the prices of raw materials, undervalues the currencies of the satellite countries when setting the prices of their products. The upshot of the entire relationship is that satellite nations have been kept so weak economically that Hungary's revolt and Poland's new freedom disrupted the entire system...