Word: programming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MONTREUX-VEVEY FESTIVAL (Aug. 29-Oct. 5) offers a varied but traditional program, including Mozart by Yehudi Menuhin's Festival Orchestra, Bach played on the organ by Munich's Karl Richter, Corelli and Vivaldi by I Musici di Roma, and even a night of Indian music with Sitarist Debabrata Chaudhury and Tabla Virtuoso Sitaram. The highlight of the festival will take place on Sept. 17, when the Orchestre de la Radio Suisse Italienne will present a concert of Mozart and Haydn atop 10,000-ft.-high Diablerets Glacier...
...flying everything from Ford tri-motors to experimental X-15 rocket planes, took decisive action. The automatic landing system was taking Eagle down into a football-field-size crater littered with rocks and boulders, Armstrong explained: "It required a manual takeover on the P-66 [a semiautomatic computer program] and flying manually over the rock field to find a reasonably good area." The crisis emphasized the value of manned flight. Had Eagle continued on its computer-guided course, it might well have crashed into a boulder, toppled over or landed at an angle of more than 30° from the vertical...
...fourth demand, dealing with the freshman class being representative of the high school population, President Gallagher pointed to the budget cut in Albany. He explained during the question and answer period that although the 100 Scholars program is being implemented this fall (a program to admit the top 100 students from every high school of N.Y.C. into the City University system), his major concern was quality, "I want more than a quantity program," he said...
...existing orientation program simply the product of spontaneous activity or are members of the Student Personnel Dept. hired to do the job? The current City College bulletin suggests the latter: "Members of the Department conduct a series of orientation classes for all entering students and provide individual orientation interviews" (page 175). Isn't it up to Dr. Gallagher to appoint a Black and Puerto Rican administrative superstructure with which student volunteers can work...
...more topical and specialized courses. This concern for the layman led him to tape a course on the history of the symphony for nationally syndicated educational television, and to broadcast a weekly illustrated discussion in preparation for the Boston Symphony concerts, which won an award as the best radio program in the humanities...