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Seated at an International Business Machines Corp. electronic computer last week, a girl who understands not a word of Russian punched out the message: Mi pyeryedayem mislyi posryedstvom ryech-yi. In a few seconds the mechanical "brain" spewed out a translation from Russian to English: "We transmit thoughts by means of speech...
...soloists with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Charles Munch; Victor, 2 LPs). Musical sweet talk in its sweetest, if not most stimulating, performance on records. Included are some meltingly graceful choruses (sung by Harvard and Radcliffe groups) and solos by Contralto Margaret Roggero, Tenor Leslie Chabay and Basso Yi-Kwei...
...Marie Kathryn Gibbons, Jean Gutheim, Dorothy Slavin Haysteafl, Harriet Heck, Robin Hinsdale, Bonnie Claire Howells, Vera Kovarsky, E. Eleanore Larsen, Sylvia Crane Myers, Helen Newlin, Amelia North, Mary Baylor Reinhart, Margaret Rorison, Deirdre Mead Ryan, Jane Darby Scholl, Ruth Silva, M. Ava Smith, Zona Sparks, Frances Stevenson, Jean Sulzberger, Yi Ying Sung, Eleanor Tatum, Paula von Haim-berger, Marilyn Wellemeyer, Joan Wharton...
...first time in their 3½ years of rule, the Chinese Communists last week made public some of the facts & figures of their national budget. This year, said Finance Minister Po Yi-po, the Peking regime will launch its first five-year plan for industrialization-and spend 233.5 trillion people's dollars (U.S. $9.86 billion at the official Communist rate of exchange...
...soloists had an easy time. Contralto Margaret Roggero, whose rich, pure voice compensated for her poor diction, had one lovely aria in the first act. Yi-Kwei Sze, as Friar Laurence, showed fine tonal control, even in the lowest registers. The sudden emergence of his booming bass voice in the midst of a choral and orchestral tutti was one of the finest moments in the work...