Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During a three-hour ceremony at Pleiku, Ky sat impassively in his black uniform and lavender scarf, removing his gloves only to put on the brass bracelets that symbolize Montagnard friendship. Solemnly, 250 Montagnard rebels knelt before him to pledge allegiance to the Saigon government. Then, as Ky, a host of government officials, and U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge looked queasily on, the Montagnards poured rice wine over the Premier's boots and slashed a water buffalo to death in honor of the Saigon visitors. Fortunately, the sacrifice took only five minutes rather than the usual hour or more...
JERICHO (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). When three captured Allied generals are transported across Europe by their German captors, the Jericho team is sent to rescue them in "The Big Brass Contraband...
Today she and her husband have a well-equipped machine shop of their own in Paris where they arc-weld great quantities of stainless steel and brass tubing into abstract sculptures that exude a confidence in the mechanical world and at the same time, from certain oblique angles, suddenly open up all manner of allusions to nature. With success, their concepts and commissions have grown steadily bigger. "Using our welding technique," says Brigitte, "there is no limit." For Germany's Tubingen University, they are now putting the finishing touches on a 49-ft.-long commission, their largest to date...
...majority of Americans living in them. Also, as shown by the graceless handling of Historian Eric Goldman's resignation as a special presidential consultant this month, Johnson has little or no rapport with the intellectual community. The President's strained relations with Big Labor's top brass were all too evident at his pilgrimage to Detroit on Labor Day -though there was no lack of rank-and-file palms admiringly outstretched for Johnson's benison along the motorcade route into town...
...heart! With horror the voyagers realize that the only way back to the brain lies through the gnashing organ whose terrible turbulence would smash their delicate ship to smithereens. Then all at once top brass (Edmond O'Brien and Arthur O'Connell) has a dazzling idea: if the patient's heart were stopped for 60 seconds, the submarine might squeak through the right ventricle without getting tangled in the chordae tendineae that hang there in hundreds like looping lianas...