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...nation-wide program--Decisions . . . 1959--to arouse interest in questions of foreign policy will be held for the first time throughout the Cambridge area beginning Feb. 1. The eight-week series of events is sponsored by the Foreign Policy Association of the United States, a group of citizens publicizing international affairs...
Wriggle in Radius. The new Donegan has been so successful that she has a contract with the Embers (through 1961) that brings her $2,000 a week and calls for two eight-week stints a year. This sort of payoff has drawn her to the attention of Internal Revenue men who argue that her gyrations constitute a cabaret act, that the club ought to pay the 20% entertainment tax rather than the 3% charged for purely instrumental gaiety. "If I had to stop groaning," Dorothy groans, "I'd be out of business." So a compromise was arranged...
...will touch 12,000 students this fall. Latest link in the reaction: five summer institutes that last week graduated 300 teachers familiar with the M.I.T. committee's radically new theories of physics teaching and able to handle a wide repertoire of new experiments. During the eight-week courses sponsored this summer by the National Science Foundation, the high school teachers suggested changes in the M.I.T. text, enthusiastically accepted the basic idea: lead students to discover physics concepts through experiments, rather than use experiments to verify laws already memorized. Other M.I.T. innovations: increased emphasis on theoretical rather than applied physics...
...each of the 26 foreign cities on its eight-week grand tour, the Philadelphia Orchestra carried calling cards: presentation copies of the Declaration of Independence. And by last week the Philadelphians also carried a bale of rave notices. From London to Moscow, the pride of Philadelphia was the toast of Europe-an extraordinary experience even for a U.S. orchestra that has few peers anywhere in the world...
After the eight-week Broadway run of The Entertainer, Sir Laurence will hurry to Scotland to catch the moors in a properly misty mood for his movie Macbeth. As in his other three Shakespearian movies (Henry V, Hamlet, Richard III), he will produce, direct and star...