Word: conducting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...ballot, the party stands little chance of keeping well-liked Governor Munoz Marin from his fourth term. Even so, Munoz was still angry enough to denounce the bishops' letter as an "incredible medieval interference in a political campaign," promised to bring up the bishops' conduct with Vatican officials after the election...
...Switzerland ("We live in the mountains; where, is a military secret"). He teaches at the University of Zurich, retires from the world for five months each year to compose. Among the works proposed: an orchestral piece for the opening of Manhattan's Lincoln Center. Next summer he will conduct the Santa Fe Opera in three performances of his opera News...
...getting experience in the U.S. This fall, besides Millar, Bernstein chose Massachusetts-born Rus sell Stanger, 30, and Israeli-born Elyakum Shapira, 33. All three were in the hall at last week's concert when Bernstein walked offstage and announced that he was too ill to return to conduct the next scheduled work-Schumann's Symphony No. 4. (He was suffering the aftermath of a case of bronchitis contracted during the orchestra's six-week, 20,000-mile summer tour...
...ancient profession new life. Japan alone has 40,000 midwives, many of whom staff the 143 community health centers to which rural housewives go to give birth. Swedish midwives examine each expectant mother ten times during the course of her pregnancy, lecture her on female anatomy and sexual relations, conduct classes in calisthenics, explain delivery procedure, counsel expectant fathers, even help fit contraceptive devices. When they have completed a three-year course, prospective Greek midwives must intern for a year in a maternity hospital, then serve for another three years in rural regions where trained medical help is short...
...Bruner and George A. Miller, professor of Psychology, the Center has begun exploration into five areas of the processes of human cognition. The staff will conduct projects on the nature of human perception, learning, memory, and thinking, with reference to how people organize information and use it for solving problems...