Word: armes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cancer; in East Berlin. One of the century's most influential operatic impresarios, Vienna-born Felsenstein was a demanding perfectionist who sometimes rehearsed for 36-hour stretches. Once, when a reluctant chorus member declined to jump from a 7-ft.-high perch, Felsenstein made the leap, broke his arm and returned 45 minutes later waving his cast and demanding "Now will you jump?" Felsenstein retained his Austrian citizenship and commuted daily from his home in West Berlin to the East, where he turned the Komische Oper into the Communist regime's leading cultural ornament...
...government's pursuit of Hoffa only confirmed his heroism. If his obsession with Robert Kennedy, the "spoiled brat" was not so real, Hoffa would have needed it for style alone. His explanation of the feud with Kennedy is typical: he says Kennedy began to hate him after losing an arm-wrestling match to Hoffa. Hoffa's "war" is not capital vs. labor, but man against man to see who will crumple...
...frequently in Portugal: To whose drum are the soldiers marching? Most of the military forces in northern Portugal still support the government, but units in the south are openly rebellious, and the two-camp situation could easily degenerate into civil war. Last week extreme leftist army commands were distributing arms to civilians in the south. At least 30,000 weapons have been stolen from the military, perhaps without much resistance, since the beginning of the revolution, and most of them are in the hands of leftists. When an officer of COPCON, Portugal's internal-security police, recently admitted that...
...thing, Lee's left arm is fine again after a little sorness and basically he's a ground-ball pitcher," Johnson explained. "He also has been a consistent winner in our ballpark...
...time, the move paid off. Fingers bailed out of a Red Sox threat, courtesty of Reggie Jackson's strong left arm. Jackson, who also had a two-run homer for the A's gunned down Cecil Cooper at the plate, completing one of a record four Oakland double plays...