Word: batons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...same time, our bureaus filed their assessments of the startling news, to from Hong Kong, Bruce Nelan described the events that led to the apparent softening of Peking's foreign policy. ∙ Every music critic dreams of picking up a baton and conducting an orchestra. For Music Critic William Bender, fantasy became reality last week when he went to hear the American Wind Symphony Orchestra per form on a barge anchored in the Ohio River off the sleepy Appalachian town of to W. Va. Accepting what he mistakenly perceived to be a tongue-in-cheek invitation from Symphony Director...
...that the King had been overthrown, and proclaimed a "revolutionary republic." Shouting slogans like "Socialism has arrived-down with the monarchy!" rebel broadcasters brought thousands of dissident Moroccans into the streets. Many gleefully tore down birthday posters bearing Hassan's portrait. But their demonstration proved short-lived as baton-wielding police beat them back...
...house, or what the managers on 57th Street like to call a bella voce theater. Its basic operating premise is that what counts is glorious singing. The only trouble is that no amount of fine vocalizing will make an opera like Otello or Wozzeck work without a steady, compelling baton on the podium. Yet it is difficult to get, let alone keep, good conductors in a house where singing stars have virtual veto power over their maestros. As a result, good conducting has been almost as elusive at the Met as good ballet...
Exemplary Father. The public case against Corona left many questions unanswered. The dead men were believed to be drifters, some from as far away as Baton Rouge, La., and Atlanta. Corona specialized in recruiting short-term farm-labor crews principally from among the Skid Row winos of Yuba City or neighboring Marysville. Corona collected them in an old blue school bus with his name lettered on the side; the first victim reported missing, Sigrid Beierman, also known as Pete Peterson, was last seen about six weeks ago being driven away by a Mexican labor contractor...
...bunch of roses bound with a ribbon that read DADDY-WE LOVE HIM SO MUCH, Tri's casket was lowered into a grave in Bien Hoa's military cemetery. Fastened to the coffin's lid were his dress hat, his gloves, his sword and his baton...