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...become the new president of the association, the lawyers last week inaugurated Sylvester C. Smith Jr., a onetime "country lawyer" in New Jersey who is now general counsel of the Prudential Insurance Co. of America. A robust deep-water sailor (he races a 43-ft. auxiliary sloop), Smith is the first corporate counsel ever to serve as A.B.A. president, as well as the oldest ever chosen; he will be 68 this month. Biggest item on Smith's agenda for 1963: an international conference-to be held probably in India-aimed at the A.B.A.'s goal, "World Peace Through...
...bold idea, for Moore's recent robust and rugged style would probably be in startling contrast to the varied elegance of the four surrounding buildings: the low-slung theater originally designed by the late Eero Saarinen, Max Abramovitz' travertine-columned Philharmonic Hall, Wallace K. Harrison's fluted Metropolitan Opera House, Pietro Belluschi's Juilliard School of Music. The center's governing committee got Moore to look at the site, and last week, after Yorkshire-born Sculptor Moore pored over a model of the site, he agreed to take on what should be the most formidable...
Maria Livanos (Viola) and Peter Gesell (Toby Belch) add more robust comedy; Miss Livanos turns in her most flexible performance to date and all but overcomes the cloying cuteness of her voice with a newfound range of inflections and gestures...
...achieved comparative price stability over the last four years, but that stability has not been accompanied by robust economic growth and was, in fact, accompanied in 1958 by the worst recession since World War II. Even though the consumer price index has been edging up-the Commerce Department announced last week that it had risen .7% in the first four months of 1962-its rise has been only a modest 1% or 1½% in recent years. In the economic boom of the 1950s, that rise averaged...
...Judy Collins, 23, has a robust alto that she wields with strong dramatic sense, supported by a shrewd selection of material. Both help make up for a voice less handsome than either Baez' or Dobson...