Word: alto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Palo Alto, Calif...
...native Columbus, Ohio, where he literally dreamed of playing two horns at the same time and was entranced by what he heard in his mind's ear. After an antique dealer turned up the manzello, which approximates the soprano sax, and the stritch, which is close to an alto sax, Kirk began practicing what he had dreamed. Since then he has blown his horns all over Europe and the U.S.; he is a dauntless explorer of the frontiers of sound, a man who simply wants to play as much music as any one man can. A devotee of Brazilian...
Only the doctors and nurses specially assigned to the new unit at Palo Alto-Stanford Hospital Center were allowed to enter it, and even they had to "scrub up" first and put on a sterile gown, cap and mask. Lining the pale green wall was a row of Plexiglas-covered incubators. The babies who wriggled and squeaked in them last week were being treated like miniature maharajahs, with the most expert and intensive care around the clock. To diaper them with out changing the balmy temperature of their isolation, nurses worked through armholes in the incubator sides. Some...
...Fall. But before long, things began to go wrong. Constantino accused his managers in Monte Alto of embezzling company funds, announced he wanted nothing more to do with the town, sold his factory, and demanded the return of his sainted sister's body-back to Sao Paulo, "where she belongs with her family." Monte Alto's town fathers pleaded, even held a festival in Constantino's honor last year. They named a street after him, dedicated a bust to his late wife. But there was no placating Constantino...
Last October he sent a truck to Monte Alto, loaded it up with a cargo of Izildinha medals, books, banners and photos that the town had printed. Monte Alto's town fathers let him take them away-but not Izildinha. Legally and in writing, Constantino had donated her to Monte Alto. "The body belongs to us," said a former mayor of Monte Alto. "Even if she is not a saint, she is still something for the people to cling to." Recently, 5,000 citizens turned out in a mass demonstration against Constantino. "Respect Our Faith: Don't Steal...