Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Approximately 90 members of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO) left last night for a two-week trip to Berlin to participate in an international student orchestra competition sponsored by the Herbert von Karajan Foundation. Karajan was a former conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, and the competition is in honor of his 70th birthday...
...question remained: Were the new American women tough enough to take on the East Germans head-to-head in an actual meet? Last week the young Americans were put to the test in a distant and Olympic-like setting: the World Swimming Championships held in West Berlin...
...Tracy was an almost perfect swimming machine, slim, long-armed and, after years of rigorous training, powerful. She learned to swim at four and, with the prodding of an older brother and sister (Amy, 17, played on the U.S. women's water polo team that gave an exhibition in Berlin), she began to swim seriously as an eight-year-old. At twelve she started weight training, and shortly thereafter settled into a grueling six-day-a-week regimen...
...Berlin, Caulkins was surprisingly confident and cool for a young girl who felt she had a responsibility to the American team to do well. The pressure, she said, "doesn't really bother...
...thick Russian accent. "No, no," Suzanne, as Christina Onassis, gently explained, he had it wrong-but never mind: "I can buy you the best course Berlitz has to offer." "Have we been to Berlitz?" Monty, playing Christina's latest husband, Sergei Kauzov, asks plaintively. "No, that's Berlin," she answers...