Word: variously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They play soccer at Penn on a narrow, choppy field out behind the university steam plant, among various factories and under the main railroad artery to Philadelphia. There, in the worst playing condition imaginable, the varsity soccer squad staked its claim to the Ivy League title by defeating Penn, 2 to 0, last Saturday...
...Berlin, while Ukrainian partisans once again fought both the Wehrmacht and the Red army in a vain effort to carve a free Ukraine out of the confusion at war's end. To avoid Russian agents, he fled to West Germany in 1945, but shuttled back and forth in various disguises between Munich and the Ukraine, bringing encouragement and funds to the partisan army, which fought on for four more years before being finally subdued by the Soviets. (Stalin's vice-lord for suppressing the Ukrainians: Nikita Khrushchev...
...steady file of visitors, intent on paying their respects to the erect, shock-haired old man who lives there in semiseclusion. At 83, Berlin-born Conductor Bruno Walter had achieved one of the triumphs of a memorable career: his second complete recording of the nine Beethoven symphonies. At various times, mostly in the 1940s and '50s, Walter had made other recordings of the nine. But Columbia decided on a repeat performance with latest recording techniques, including stereo. The job was done with a specially hired orchestra of Los Angeles musicians in a hall not far from Bruno Walter...
...result is a seven-disk set of remarkable clarity, in which the various elements of the orchestra stand forth in superbly wrought detail. In the comparatively calm air of the early symphonies and of the Pastoral, the orchestra sings with a kind of warmth and lyric affection typical of Walter's musical vision. In the sterner period of the Seventh and Ninth, it takes on an incandescence and brilliance that elevate both performances to dazzling heights. Not all of the set is equally good, but all of it is imbued in some degree with Walter's ageless enthusiasm...
...outstandingly competitive men and their opposites, the researchers picked a dozen of each, persuaded them to keep samples of their urine all day on the job, and a nighttime specimen for comparison. Analysis showed what happened to the excretion (and therefore, presumably, to the body's output) of various kinds of hormones. Adrenocortical hormones such as hydrocortisone were similar in the two groups, and varied little between day and night. But on the job, the competitive men's adrenaline jumped 86% above night readings, as against 36% for the comparison group. With noradrenaline, said Dr. Friedman, the jump...