Word: programming
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...Berlin. "The countdown has begun," said Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, as he called for national unity. Connecticut Democrat Thomas J. Dodd, touching off a notable Senate debate (see The Congress), warned that the U.S. may be facing "the supreme and ultimate test," and called for a 90-day "program of the utmost urgency." In Topeka, Kans. sometime G.O.P. Presidential Candidate Alf Landon warned: "We have seen so many crises in the past ten years that people find themselves under the spell of the old fable, where the boy cried 'Wolf! Wolf!' too often. But this...
Representatives from 135 New England colleges met here yesterday for a government sponsored series of workshops on the operation of the new National Defense Student Loan Program, Wallace McDonald '44, Director of Financial Aid, reported last night...
Officers of the University and M.I.T. conducted sessions on the measurement of financial need. Most of the participating colleges were small and unaccustomed to administering an extensive aid program, McDonald remarked. "The workshops attempted to give people with no experience a chance to talk with those who were familiar with the problem...
...first half of the program consisted of Hindemith's Symphony in E-flat, composed in 1930. This is a turgid, tense work, and it received a rather turgid, tense performance. There were some passages of technical finesse and sparkle, particularly the wind sections of the last movement; but most of it was pretty dogged. Aside from some intonation problems, the notes were faithfully gone through, showing effort but very little imagination; as a result, the big, well-scored passages sounded good, the small, thin sections were dull...
Judges in the contest were Attilio Poto, conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and Randall Thompson '20, Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music. The orchestra will play "Variations on a Melody" at its annual spring concert in Sanders Theatre. On the same program it will present the winner in its concerto contest...