Word: absenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...times by the 130 musicians he led. But the situation never got out of control. Despite the great numbers in this year's football band (at least 50 more than last year), attacks and cut-offs were sharp and precise. The ragged entrances that marred previous Dartmouth concerts were absent; clean, precise playing was evident in nearly every selection...
Conductor Bentley Layton chose a wise program for his chamber orchestra, and performed it with security, confidence, and a very welcome accuracy. Layton apparently did his work with the orchestra before the concert. Last minute attempts to save a sinking orchestra were totally absent from his podium performance; he infused the orchestral sound with the proper delicacy and care...
Lodge, in turn, recounted his experience in the Departments of Labor and State, and closed with a final jab at the absent Ted Kennedy. No President of the U.S. has ever had a member of his family sitting in Congress while in office, Lodge said, and asked why Kennedy thought he should break this tradition...
...first glance it seems a monument to absent-mindedness-a potpourri of unrelated products from bread-bagging machines to rocket launchers, all stuffed improbably under the wing of one of the nation's most anonymous corporate giants. But FMC Corp. of San Jose, Calif., is no happenstance hodgepodge. It is a carefully laid industrial mosaic that since 1950 has run up an enviable record of twelve consecutive yearly increases in both sales and profits. Last year sales of FMC's 14 divisions soared to $415 million; in the first half of this year they climbed another...
...Sneaky Chinese." Conspicuously absent were Nationalist China and Israel, both accredited members of the Asian Games Federation. Neither nation, as it happens, is recognized by Indonesia's government, which generally sides with the Arab nations and Communist China in international disputes. Red China had pressured Sukarno for months to exclude Formosa; the Arab bloc did its best to convince Big Bung (brother) that it would be a diplomatic embarrassment for a Moslem nation like Indonesia to play host to Jewish athletes. To keep the two countries out, Sukarno used some gold-medal gamesmanship...