Word: bands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crust breaks under this tension from within, forming a narrow, steep-sided rift that grows slowly wider. When the rift is about 60 miles wide, a fresh rift forms in its center. More rifts form as long as the tension continues, and their steep sides accumulate in a broad band of rugged terrain on both sides of the youngest rift. Since the tension is caused by rising molten material, this cracked-up region is apt to be somewhat elevated, like the Mid-Atlantic Ridge...
...16th century for Washington Records, performed in concert halls including the National Gallery of Art. played his own flamenco guitar score for a production of Tennessee Williams' The Purification. He made a bow to jazz by playing in England and Saudi Arabia with the Woody Herman band, has also composed music for modern dance groups, and for the past two years has been combining classics and jazz at the Showboat...
...President left Maryland at 3:57 one morning last week, touched down in Newfoundland for a refueling and coffee stop, swept on across the Atlantic to land at Cologne-Bonn's Wahn Airport at 6:30 p.m. Bonn time. Bundeswehr artillery fired a 21-gun salute; a band played The Star-Spangled Banner and Deutschlandlied. Old Chancellar Konrad Adenauer, erect and brisk, stepped forward to greet the President, hailed the U.S. as "the standard-bearer of freedom." The President replied: "The name Adenauer has come to symbolize the determination of the German people to remain strong and free...
...regimenting his 300 elite researchers and their supporting forces. Dr. Rhoads believed that the public must understand cancer research to support it, talked freely to the press. Subject of a TIME cover (June 27, 1949), he was photographed at the helm of his sailboat. This was what a willful band of little men in the New York County Medical Society had been waiting for. Jealous, they threatened him (always unofficially) with expulsion for publicity seeking. Though they never had the courage to act openly, they harassed him for a decade...
...everything Nudie did lost money. After he married a girl from Mankato, Minn., he tried the dry-cleaning business and went broke again. Back in Los Angeles, he opened a small tailor shop and was almost starving when he offered to make some uniforms for Tex Williams' cowboy band. Then Tex went on the radio coast to coast and gave Nudie a plug, and the little tailor was on his way to his first ulcer and his first...