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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...using the same old methods. Something has to give." The truth of the statement was never more clear than in a major report issued last week by President Frank Bowles of the College Entrance Examination Board. Geared to a day when few Americans went to college, the present system has met the rising tide with "a series of improvisations," says Bowles, and is "in a condition of working obsolescence...
...June 23). An International Festival that relies almost entirely on visiting troupes, including Britain's Royal Opera in a production of John Gardner's The Moon and Sixpence, the Bolshoi Ballet, the Little Ballet Troupe of Bombay and the 360-member Sofia Opera, which will present the first Western stage performance of Prokofiev's War and Peace...
...Montreux (Aug. 31-Sept. 25). Hampered by the lack of a first-class concert hall (a visiting violinist once bitterly referred to the "grotto acoustics" of the lakeside pavilion), the festival directors nevertheless present excellent large-scale concerts by the Orchestre National de Paris and the Symphony of the Nordwestdeutsche Rundfunk. Among the participants: Conductors Eugen Jochum, Ernest Ansermet and Andre Cluytens, Virtuosos Nathan Milstein, Artur Rubinstein, Pierre Fournier, Zino Francescatti...
...donors included Arnold Toynbee and David Dubinsky. Charles Malik and Jacques Maritain, T. S. Eliot and Eleanor Roosevelt. They and 66 other sponsors had joined to raise $250,000 for a going-away present to Reinhold Niebuhr. the U.S.'s best-known theologian, retiring this month at 68 as vice president and senior faculty member of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. The gift: a Reinhold Niebuhr professorship of social ethics. Its first incumbent: Congregationalist John Coleman Bennett. 57, dean of the faculty and professor of applied Christianity at Union, who, like his friend Niebuhr. is deeply concerned with...
...dissidents agree that the day is not too far off when man will have a valid function in space. As instrumented spacecraft get more and more sophisticated, it becomes more and more difficult to transmit, record, digest and interpret their food of raw data. The best solution at present is to put small computers in the spacecraft. One kind, called a "Tele-bit," translates the data from the instruments into figures that are sufficiently simple to send over the transmitter and can go directly into a big ground computer. But when spacecraft begin to work at such distances as Mars...