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...never was very robust, and now, at 64, he is growing noticeably pale and frail. But tiny (5 ft. 3 in.) Showman Billy Rose is still the oldtime dynamite. Traveling to Jerusalem for the seventh time in three years, he was overseeing construction of his greatest philanthropical production: a $500,000 garden to display his $1,000,000 collection of statuary as part of Israel's Bezalel National Museum. "The Guggenheim is nothing compared to what my museum is going to be," boasted Billy. And why was he giving away his collection? "After I'm gone...
...Germany in 1934, Hindemith turned to reorganizing the music education program of Turkey, then came to the U.S. in 1940. He was a professor of music at Yale until 1953, when he returned to Europe and settled down in Zurich. He was a short, round little man of robust health until circulatory ailments began to plague him in his declining years. Hindemith died at 68, following four swift strokes, and was buried near Vevey on Lake Geneva. Only a few close friends were at his graveside...
...recipient areas, new factories, hydroelectric plants and highways have sprouted. The recipients, sharing their own meager know-how, have trained 2,691 of one another's students in a technical exchange program. Industry has burgeoned in the plan's 13 years, is still expanding at a robust 8% annually-but in most of the recipient countries, it started almost from zero...
...Home, its choice "is whether to treat the country as a chronic invalid, taking its temperature and feeling its pulse every five minutes to see if it is strong enough to be told the facts of life, or whether to assume that the body politic of the country is robust and its mind mature and its heart sound and to tell the people what the hour demands, confident they will rise to the occasion. The country has a right to assume that men's minds will be as modern as the machinery they tend, that private enterprise will...
...Blackman has probably not worried too much about the possibility of losing to Holy Cross today. The Crusaders are not nearly as robust as the crew that overcame stiff Harvard resistance last year. Graduation and a truly tragic mauling by Syracuse have thinned the ranks...