Word: von
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...edge in flat trajectory and smacked into the water. By the time they turned at the far end of the 50-meter pool, a tall, 14-year-old blonde held the lead, increased it with each powerful stroke, finished well out in front. Susan Christine ("call me Chris") von Saltza had done it in 1:03.5, set a U.S. record. Less than an hour later she windmilled to a new world's record in the 200-meter backstroke with a 2:37.4 clocking. Still dripping in her black suit, Chris hustled to a telephone, called her mother in Saratoga...
Died. Rudolph von Laban, 78, Hungarian-born choreographer, teacher and theorist of the dance, deviser of Labanotation, the first widely accepted, effective method of recording dance movements on paper; in London...
Electronist Stockhausen started out as a comparatively conventional rebel in the Anton von Webern atonal vein but soon felt he had "dried up" and started looking for new effects. At Cologne he can get just about any effect he wants with the aid of an array of recorders and filters plus generators that may rumble, screech, thunder, and produce other items of planned flatulence. By varying the signals sent to the 20 loudspeakers spotted about the auditorium, Stockhausen can make his sounds swoosh along a wall, tinkle in a corner or explode over the head of the audience. He first...
...whole work. His satire is sometimes crude, but it has bigness and generous anger, and his too physical sense of reality is a limitation that helps to concentrate his force and sharpen his impact. At his best he has an earthy weight and vigor that suggest a more amenable Von Stroheim, a pocket Zola...
Aerojet was founded by Dr. Theodore von Kàrmàn, onetime boss of Caltech's famed Guggenheim Aeronautical Laboratory, who currently splits his time as Aerojet chief consultant and chairman of NATO's aeronautical advisory council. Just before World War II, the Air Force asked him to work out a way to help overloaded bombers take off from short runways. Von Kàrmàn's solution was the famed JATO rocket-booster unit. The only trouble was that the company lacked the capital and the production know-how to follow through...