Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Teddy blared into town behind a crack brass band to find a prearranged crowd, replete with pretty girl workers, awaiting him outside the hotel. Pulled up on a sound truck, Teddy began to speak-and his chopping gestures, his thrust-out chin, his flat inflections and staccato cadences were more than slightly familiar...
...city on the seat beside him, Hometown Boy Duke Ellington, 63, cruised in an air-conditioned black limousine down Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue, right on past No. 1600 where his father and uncle once were White House butlers. Before him strutted the ten-piece Eureka Brass Band from New Orleans, whanging out a version of When the Saints Go Marching In that was loud enough to halt Press Secretary Pierre Salinger in the middle of a briefing. The occasion was the First International Jazz Festival, a People-to-People program with the Duke serving as honorary host, that kept...
From Pusan in the south to Panmunjom on the war-famed 38th parallel, fireworks lit up the sky and brass bands blared in the plazas of South Korea. It was the first anniversary of General Park Chung Hee's successful army coup, and it marked his junta's success in honoring the pledge it made when it seized power -to give South Korea "a new life...
...prompting from the Senate's O'Mahoney subcommittee, further improved its dealer relations. It extended dealer contracts from one year to five, hired an ex-judge to decide disagreements between the company and its dealers, and set up elected dealer councils to thresh out problems with company brass. The result is that today G.M.'s 13,800 U.S. dealerships are prized possessions. Says San Francisco Chevy Dealer Ellis Brooks: "Getting a Chevrolet franchise is the dream of everybody in the business...
...eight executive bedrooms at its 15-story headquarters building. He is up at 7:30, breakfasts in the executive committee dining room, and by 8 a.m. is ready to do business with G.M.'s early-arriving executives. Evenings, he sometimes leads a group of the top brass to a Detroit Tigers night baseball game. "I'm very careful to be pro-Yankee when I'm in Detroit," he notes with a grin...