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Dates: during 1960-1960
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What grist for the Protestant scandalmongers' mill! Everything that American Catholicism has stood for-separation of church and state, freedom of religion, a non-temporal clergy-is endangered by the stupid, archaic and "dog-in-the-manger" mouthings of these modern-day Savonarolas. This sort of thing is precisely what makes Protestants turn green at the gills and red in the face...
Bringing any sort of big airliner down to a gentle-or safe-landing is a considerable stunt. But heavy, fast, steeply sinking jet planes have made the proposition even trickier. Their pilots cannot make a so-so approach and depend on last-minute power adjustments to keep them from overshooting or undershooting the runway. They must fly "by the numbers"-at precise letdown speeds, with their wing flaps set precisely right and their noses at the correct angle. Once a 150-ton jet is committed to land, it must follow a very narrow "slot of forgiveness," never deviating appreciably...
...Angeles launch a German recital tour. At the piano behind her was one of the most gifted and certainly the most eloquent of present-day accompanists, England's Gerald Moore, who says: "The accompanist who 'follows' but does not anticipate is a dull, pedestrian sort of fellow, without electricity, a fallen arch in the march of time...
...balance of last night's program consisted largely of sixteenth-century religious music, American folk songs and spirituals, and a handful of unclassifiable songs. One of the latter was Francois Poulenc's Chanson A Boire, dedicated to the Harvard Glee Club and sung by the Elis. It's a sort of cadenza for chorus, and, despite occasional Gallic touches, did not sound very different from the American folk songs sung separately by both clubs...
...arouse broad student support, which its officers believe already exists, but to discover where American youths--both teachers and technicians--are needed abroad. The Committee also wishes to find out how participants should be chosen and trained, what bodies should administer and support the program, and the sort of political opposition it is likely to meet in Congress...