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...century for a comparable triumph. That was when Franz Liszt, history's most vaunted piano virtuoso (and the teacher of the man who taught Van's first teacher-his mother), made his debut in St. Petersburg. Wearing Pope Pius IX's Order of the Golden Spur over his white cravat, his immaculate dress coat clanking with his other medals, his "shapely white hands" encased in doeskin gloves, he appeared, tossing his shoulder-length blond hair, before an audience of 3,000, who greeted him with "thunderous applause such as had not been heard in Russia for over...
...dollars per taxpayer over the economy," considered a tax cut only a surface palliative for deeper economic ills. If a tax cut is inevitable, said the committee, it should be framed as a long-range reform of the entire tax structure instead of just a slash to spur business. This "would not end the recession tomorrow," but could have "highly desirable results" in the long...
...daubing the character and career of Lord Randolph's stupendous son Winston, Rowse makes clear that the father's tragic fall from power served more than anything else to spur the son to glory. Among Sir Winston's faults Rowse cites his lack of "some intuitive tactile sense to tell him what others were thinking and (especially) feeling." Rowse attributes this partly to Sir Winston's breeding: the "very strength of the two natures mixed in him, the self-willed English aristocrat and the equally self-willed primitive American" combined to make him greater...
FIRST OIL PIPELINE to California is starting to carry crude from Four Corners region, where Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah meet. The 16-in. line, which runs 750 miles, will pump up to 70,000 bbl. per day, will ease oil deficiency on West Coast and spur exploration for new sources in Four Corners area...
Last week reports swirled around Detroit that automakers were hustling to restyle their long-planned '59 models to satisfy the shift in public tastes, possibly bring out some small cars. Whether they will or not, automakers were seriously considering one big change to spur sales: they are expected to move up the introduction of '59 models. Detroit buzzed that divisions of at least two of the Big Three will stop '58 production in July instead of September, will drive in with the '59 models weeks ahead of schedule. General Motors plans to introduce many...