Word: alto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worked at base camp. At noon, the eight high on the mountain heard the terrifying rumble that signals an avalanche. Before they could take cover, it smashed down upon them, sweeping away five Americans, including Everett, and two Sherpa porters. The eighth man, Louis F. Reichardt, 27, of Palo Alto, Calif., was out of the slide's path and survived. He spent the next several hours searching for his companions. Late in the week, not a trace had been found. It was the worst mountaineering disaster in Nepal's history...
Each project was identified through a rigid screening process by the American Institute for Research and Behavioral Sciences (AIR), Palo Alto, Calif., under contract to the Office of Education and in consultation with the National Advisory Council on the Education of Disadvantaged Children...
...harpsichordist as well as conductor, creates a performance that combines operatic grandeur in the Dies Irae with the religious awe attending death that is heralded by the sepulchral drumbeats at the close of the Agnus Dei. The four first-class soloists (Maria Stader, soprano; Hertha Töpper, alto; John van Kesteren, tenor; Karl-Christian Kohn, bass) enter into the spirit of their conductor's classical conception: they never struggle to achieve Wagnerian eminence of tone but modestly blend into the musical architecture. The vocal texture of the Munich Bach Choir is glowingly transparent, despite its 90-odd members...
...Eleanor Thomas Hobbs of 24 Peabody Terrace and North Hills, Pa.; Anne D. Aylward of 24 Garden St., and Washington, D.C.; Judith L. Mumma of Wolbach Hall and Bellingham, Wash.; Anne Catesby Jones of 7 Greenough St. and Brighton; Katherine L. Miller of 23 Gray St. and Palo Alto, Calif.; and Mary J. Geothals of Jordan J and Watertown. House Athletics Hockey W L PTS Winthrop 9 2 20 Leverett 8 3 17 Eliot 8 3 16 Dunster 7 3 14 Lowell 6 5 13 Kirkland 3 4 6 Adams 1 7 2 Dudley 1 7 2 Quincy...
...city feeling of personal anonymity encourages destructive behavior. It is discouraged by a sense of community-an atmosphere in which vandals feel that anyone watching disapproves of what they are doing. To check his theory, Zimbardo parked a derelict car in a middle-class neighborhood of suburban Palo Alto, California. During three days of observation, he reports, it was not touched once...