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John Kennedy's second State of the Union message was the longest speech that he has made as President. In 53 minutes and 7,250 words he urged programs that covered the legislative spectrum. Among his major subjects: ∙THE ECONOMY. "At year's end," Kennedy said, "the economy which Mr. Khrushchev once called a 'stumbling horse' was racing to new records in consumer spending, labor income and industrial production." For continued economic expansion, the President asked Congress to approve acts to retrain workers for new jobs, help train and place youths entering the labor market...
Because Sydeman believes that it is important to write chamber music before orchestral music ("You get to know all the fingerings, the sounds and ranges of the instruments and how they combine"), his longest instrumental work thus far is a 27-minute Concert Piece for Chamber Orchestra, actually a four-movement chamber symphony. Among his other chamber successes: Seven Movements for Septet, Concerto da Camera for Violin and Chamber Ensemble. As interpreted by the Orchestra of America last week, Orchestral Abstractions was jagged in profile, strong in rhythm and color, the solo instruments, particularly the brasses in the last movement...
...world's longest mustache? Who was the world's most productive mother? No standard reference book troubles with such trivia, but an offbeat guide called The Guinness Book of Records answers such questions with gusto. And because it does, Guinness has become a useful handbook for any newspaperman who wants to spice a story with a few superlatives. Last week the second U.S. edition was rolling off the presses with the latest answers to unlikely questions: the world's mustache champ, says the new Guinness, is Masudiya Din. a Bombay Brahman who sports...
Guinness itself is a superlative, the world's greatest grab bag of mosts, leasts, longests, shortests, fattests, thinnests, highests, lowests, fastests and slowests-20,000 records in all. Its students can learn that the creature with the most sensitive sniffer is the male silkworm moth, which can detect a female two miles away; that the longest place name belongs to the New Zealand village of Taumatawhakatangihangakoauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu; and that Mrs. Beverly Nina Avery, a Los Angeles barmaid, holds the record for most spouses in a monogamous society, with 14 husbands, five of whom, she once alleged, broke her nose...
...leader of the U.N. at tack on "imperialism," but the mere hint of self-determination for the disputed northern Indian province of Kashmir, which is claimed by Pakistan, brings forth a geyser of indignant oratory. In January 1957 he defended India's right to Kashmir with the longest speech in U.N. history-7 hr. 48 min. Blithely Menon also ignores Russia's satellite colonialism. Questioned about East Germany's fetters, he answered: "Self-determination can't be applied in such a way as to be impractical." Indian critics say that in his post as Defense Minister...