Word: falling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...years Dmitri Shostakovich had been trying to "reconstruct" his composing to make his music fall more sweetly on the Kremlin ear. It seemed that was not enough. Last week he was told how fast he should compose. Complained the Soviet Composers Union in Pravda: Shostakovich had not worked hard enough to finish his new opera on the 1917 Russian Revolution, October. While comradely criticisms were being passed around, piped Pravda, the Composers Union had shown too much "complacency" about the whole matter itself...
...births have had more careful attention than .the event among the cranes last week. Whooping cranes normally migrate from the Gulf Coast to unknown breeding grounds in Canada, but Crip and Josephine, the parents of Little 38, had been grounded by wing injuries. Last fall they were brought together by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and given the run of 150 acres of well-fenced Texas marsh. It was not certain that they would get along together. Some were not even certain, in spite of their names, that they were male & female...
...South at Sewanee, Tenn. were testing a brand new scheme. With help from Episcopal laymen in Texas, they had persuaded ranchers to cut out one or more calves, lambs or kids during branding time, burn them with a special brand-an unadorned Latin cross. Come roundup time next fall, Sewanee would get all proceeds from the sale of the cross-marked livestock...
...Last fall "Jock" Whitney decided to do something concrete about it. He set up a $10,000,000 foundation, announced that $100,000 would be made available in 1950 for "Opportunity Fellowships." Eligible: any young U.S. citizen "of exceptional promise [who had] not had full opportunity to develop his talents because of arbitrary barriers, such as racial or cultural background or region of residence...
...fall, it seemed the market had been an accurate barometer; industrial production had also started up with a rush. In the next six months, the Dow industrials climbed 30 points in one of the sharpest rises in the market's history, without once suffering a major break. Some diehard bears still quibbled that the market was not actually as high as the Dow-Jones indexes* indicated, because many stocks not on the indexes had not broken their 1946 highs. But to many analysts this only meant that the bull market was still in its first phase...