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Nobody can explain Mantovani's sudden ascent from a better-than-average bandleader of average popularity, except that in 1951 he added a couple of dozen strings to sweeten up his orchestra, and recorded a schmalzy old waltz called Charmaine. It was a period when makers of LP records were discovering the possibilities of mood music. Mantovani's "new music" was apparently just what thousands of people wanted to hear when they were not really listening. It still is. Today, London Records claims, sales have topped...
...brought (as his aide) a Connecticut manufacturers' lobbyist into a closed session of the Senate Finance Committee which was considering a tariff bill of special interest to manufacturers. But politics was never his true province. An irrepressible adventurer, Honolulu-born Hiram Bingham led the first ascent of the Andes' Coropuna (21.700 ft.), discovered the famed Andean ruins of Machu Picchu. "Senators," he once said, "I understand not at all. I understand so much better the ethics and morals of explorers...
...bottom of the hill, Carlos Gonzalez Salas dropped to his knees and began the steep ascent up 200 yards of mud and boulders. Yard after yard, he placed his knees among the sharp stones; beside him struggled his companions, helping him bodily over almost impassable boulders. A training plane from a nearby army field circled low over the tiny group toiling so slowly up the hillside...
Groundwork. With Russia's Bulganin expressing "a favorable attitude," the Western allies set to work to concert their policies. Steps had to be painstakingly hewn out of the ice before the ascent to the summit could be made. The seven Western European Union nations met to put in motion the new organization designed to keep a watchful eye over West Germany's proposed 500,000-man army...
Pilot David W. Howe trained for his job of testing the vertically rising jet by learning how to fly a helicopter.* With this experience behind him, he says, he had no trouble at all. The little VTOL, with its engines turned downward, rises easily off the ground. Speed of ascent is controlled by varying the speed of the engines, and the plane is kept on an even keel by juggling the air jets. When it is clear of obstacles, Pilot Howe gets his nose down and picks up flying speed. Then he swivels the engines so that their thrust...