Word: michael
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born. To Isaac Stern, 39, Russian-born violinist, and Vera Lindenblit Stern, 32: a second child, first boy; in Manhattan. Name: Michael. Weight...
Travel Allowance. In Uxbridge, England, Michael Heath was fined $14 for parking his car at London Airport by a sign reading "Parking limited to 30 minutes," then flying to Canada for a three-week vacation...
...onrushing 20th century stranded Scientific American in the past. Readership dwindled; revenue shrank to a trickle. By 1947, when Gerard Piel, then science editor of LIFE (and grandson of the late Michael Piel, co-founder of New York's Piel Bros, brewery), persuaded two friends to join him in buying Scientific American, about all the three got for their $40,000 were 5,000 solid subscribers, a Manhattan office and a lustrous 102-year-old name. Piel had a theory, and his partners-Dennis Flanagan, also a LIFE editor, and Management Consultant Donald H. Miller Jr.-were willing...
...other delegations will not throw early support to Senator Kennedy because their leaders, both Catholics, have enough of an interest in the vice-Presidential nomination to keep off the Kennedy bandwagon. Governor Michael DeSalle and Senator Frank Lausche of Ohio and Governor David Lawrence of Pennsylvania, thus are not able to bargain with Kennedy as long as the tacit prohibition of two Catholics on the same ticket stands...
...Shaffer can write sharp dialogue that is also characterizing, can cunningly create atmosphere and tension. This, linked to a vivid production, makes for a generally good evening that at its best is engrossing. The play has its contrived moments and false notes, and the German-however well played by Michael Bryant-serves too many purposes to emerge entirely right. But in view of England's gulf between classes and generations and often evasive family tactics, there is more than a measure of truth in Shaffer's picture. And with John Gielgud eloquently directing a good cast in which...