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Bruce's post will be filled by John P. Wilson, an assistant dean. The transfer of Wilson, who has helped Toepfer with admissions work in the past will leave an additional gap to be filled. Toepfer said that additional administrators to fill the gap would probably be assistant deans...
When the Boston Symphony made its triumphant debut in Moscow in 1956, Russian audiences were shocked to discover what the outside world had long acknowledged-that U.S. orchestras were the world's finest. Russian cultural circles began buzzing with talk of the "orchestra gap." One of the most outspoken critics was Kiril Kondrashin, then conductor with the Bolshoi opera, who bluntly declared that Russian orchestras had to shape up. Four years later, when Kondrashin was appointed conductor of the Moscow Philharmonic, he admitted that "the U.S. orchestra is the ideal I am working toward...
...Gap. The Asian Bank is taking shape at a time when development aid to the world's needy countries is falling steadily behind their needs. Despite rising prosperity in the U.S. and Europe, the flow of aid from these sources has remained static since 1961 at $9 billion a year, now amounts to a trifling .9% of the developed nations' total output of goods and services. Last week Lyndon Johnson signed a comparatively modest $3.2 billion foreign-aid appropriation, but the U.S. still carries more than its share of aid. Despite nudging from Washington, Europe has been slow...
...were to find the burden too much and had to withdraw significantly," Sir Patrick concluded, "the gap would be too great for the United States or any other Western country to fill even if they were willing...
Neither bank officially recognizes the other's existence, and there are no dealings between them. Despite the wide gap that separates them, however, both serve the same basic purpose for their governments: to act as foreign exchange centers and to provide loans and services for overseas Chinese. For the Communists, the bank is widely believed to serve yet another purpose: espionage. Malaysia last year ordered the Chinese Communists to close their Singapore branch because of subversive activities, and the branch was saved only when Singapore withdrew from the Malaysian Federation. Even so, Singapore has so far refused Peking...