Word: bows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seven years ago this month, the first seven U.S. astronauts were introduced with fanfare at a Washington press conference. Last week, by contrast, when the National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced its fifth and largest group of spacemen, the 19 appointees were not around to take a bow. If their selection had lost some of its novelty value, their credentials were just as distinguished as those of their predecessors-and their missions would be even farther...
...CONCERTO FOR VIOLIN AND ORCHESTRA (Deutsche Grammophon). Filled with Slav melodies and sharp folk rhythms, Dvorak's only violin concerto is nevertheless grandly designed, and is given a spirited, full-bodied performance by Edith Peinemann, a 29-year-old German violinist with a singing tone and a dancing bow. With the Czech Philharmonic...
...length victory over Cambridge in the 112th Annual Dark Blue-Light Blue crew race, on London's windswept Thames River. Forced to find a substitute boat after their No. 1 shell collided with a buoy and sank during practice, the Cambridge rowers battled the favored Dark Blues bow-to-bow for 3 mi. of the 4-mi., 374-yd. race. Then, at the last bend, Oxford Coxswain James Rogers steered straight across the Cambridge bow, forcing the Light Blues to check as Oxford pulled away...
...fall, the Radcliffe field hockey team takes on the Spee, Fly, and Porcellian, as well as the Lampoon when the boys from Bow St. can field a team. Usually the girls lose, but then that's because they play by the rules...
Headed by Captain Jon Eddy, three varsity lettermen from last year's bow four are returning, and Weber has the undefeated '65 freshman squad to work with as well. At this point, he says that he is "cautiously optimistic...