Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Patient and cooperative, Sylvester was holding three press conferences a day to see that newsmen got every bit of intelligence they were entitled to. Presidential Press Secretary Pierre Salinger rushed White House bulletins to the reporters as soon as he got the word. Cabinet members, White House aides. Pentagon brass-everyone who knew at least part of the picture-painted it in painstaking detail in background briefings...
...Detroit, it was a shiny, triumphal week. Even the Cuban crisis, which forced Vice President Lyndon Johnson to cancel out as the chief speaker at a black-tie dinner of the auto industry's top brass, hardly diminished the excitement of the 44th National Automobile Show. Most of the million people who passed through cavernous Cobo Hall during the course of the week cheerily ignored the corny musical revue, in which leggy girls and toothy boys noisily attempted to equate car buying and patriotism ("Drive, you eagle, drive,/Hooray for the bright new day,/ Hooray for the U.S.A...
...obsessive music move in a dim past - 14th century Japan (Segaki), Yucatan at the time of the Spanish conquest (A Signal Victory), the court of the Pharaoh Ikhnaton (On a Balcony). This time the novelist chooses a subject particularly well suited to his oddly cerebral evocation of blood and brass: the legend of the Duchess of Amain...
...expected an equally precise performance of Haydn's Symphony No.6, "Le Matin," since this work requires agility from the woodwinds and brass as well as the strings, and relies on soloists within the orchestra. But, in fact, the Haydn came off at least as well as the Bach. After a slightly sluggish start, Layton moved the orchestra onto the solid, fully-packed tone one looks for in a classical symphony. Layton followed what seems to be the current musical fashion and took all the repeats. Unfortunately, by repeating Haydn's musical joke in the last movement four times, he killed...
...share ($4 above the previous closing price). Pechiney is principally interested in Howe Sound's Quaker State Metals division, which can roll out 120 million Ibs. of aluminum sheet and strip a year, but is also eager to get control of Howe's copper and brass rolling mills, its precision casting facilities and its dental and surgical products division...