Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strauss was a victim.of Senate Democrats' heaped-up frustration at their inability to use their 64-34 majority to achieve a Democratic record. He was also the victim of Clint Anderson's obsessive campaign against him (TIME, June 15). Nursing a violent dislike built up during his years as a member and chairman of Capitol Hill's Joint Atomic Energy Committee, Anderson, to collect anti-Strauss votes, drew on his personal popularity in the Senate, drummed up party loyalty, and cashed every IOU he had for past favors rendered fellow Democrats...
...chief wonder of Alba was that Donizetti's music again surmounted the absurdities of plot. In last week's production the orchestra sailed in whirlwind rushes through Donizetti's lush score; as whispered duets and trios alternated with bellowed choruses, the opera built to its lyrical climax in Act II with a love duet for Amelia and Marcello. Critics found the duet as fine as anything in Lucia di Lammermoor, proclaimed Alba "worthy of Donizetti's genius." But they reserved their warmest praise for 29-year-old Conductor Schippers, who had triumphed, one wrote, "with...
...next Hovercraft to be built, said Chief Designer Richard Stanton-Jones, will weigh 40 tons and carry 80 passengers at 100 m.p.h. Large Hovercraft should need only one-quarter the horsepower required by airplanes of comparable weight, and be able to carry twice the payload. They can start their voyages on land, require only a reasonably level shore...
...auto industry is accelerating so fast that the 3,000,000th car of 1959 rolls off the lines this week, four months ahead of 1958; front-running Chevrolet alone has built...
...COMMERCIAL JET will be built by Douglas for short to intermediate (up to 1,500 miles) range, and 1963 delivery. The DC-9 will have four Pratt & Whitney turbo-fan engines, carry 68 first-class passengers at 600 m.p.h. Probable delivery price...