Word: armes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact that the turntable had been broken the previous week, when the director of Antony and Cleopatra, Franco Zefferelli, loaded it with five times the weight it was designed to hold.) There are hardly any partial view seats in the new Met and the standees have padded arm rests...
...public for the first time at an August 18 pep rally for the cultural revolution in Peking's Gate of Heavenly Peace. Standing on both sides of the reviewing platform, the Guards, mostly in their late teens and early 20s, wore belted military-type uniforms and red arm bands. At a prearranged signal, several hundred Guards rushed in front of the stand to greet Mao. Mao accepted an arm band and pinned it on, as did his newly designated No. 2 man, Defense Minister Lin Piao. Chanted the Guards: "Chair man Mao, we shall crush the old world...
...mind (he also knows the words and music to more than 1,000 lieder, continually amazes the singers by quoting snatches of librettos from obscure operas). At night, sitting in his office, he has been known to sneak a baton out of his desk drawer and direct with full arm movements the music pouring over the house speaker system...
Gordon's troubles, similar to those encountered by Astronaut Eugene Cernan on the flight of Gemini 9, were proof to NASA officials that the mere effort of controlling arm and leg movements during a weightless space walk in a bulky space suit is far more trying than anyone had imagined. As a result, future space flights will probably schedule less ambitious space-walking chores...
Quite a season it promises to be, too. Johnny Unitas' knee is fine; Joe Namath's isn't so hot, but his arm is. Season-ticket sales are running 20% ahead of last year. The N.F.L. and the American Football League have kissed and made up, which means that Commissioner Pete Rozelle is now free to entertain antitrust suits by impoverished players and would-be franchise owners-while he simultaneously tries to sell Congressman Emanuel Celler on legislation that would exempt pro football from antitrust actions...