Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vivaldi: Concerti (I Musici Ensemble; Epic). Five works for violins, cellos and strings by an Italian composer, the bulk of whose works remained unpublished until the late 19405. Since then, Vivaldi has been recognized as a topflight composer; he switches from gentle, birdlike flutterings to rough bearlike thumpings with masterful agility...
...pages of testimony. Backing up the transcripts are truckloads of documents, photostats and recordings gathered by dozens of investigators under the zealous generalship of Committee Counsel Robert F. Kennedy, younger brother of Presidential Hopeful John F. Kennedy, himself a McClellan committee member. But for all its awesome bulk, the record has some significant gaps: committee investigators found that many Teamster documents, including all records of Hoffa's own Local 299 for the years prior to 1953, had been destroyed or hidden. Most of the important Teamster officials who testified ducked behind the Fifth Amendment. Hoffa himself never took...
...Souphanouvong, nephew of Laos' ailing, 74-year-old king. The royal Laotian army, though hampered by a communications system that in forward jungle areas consists of runners carrying messages in cleft sticks, slowly succeeded in reconquering most of the lost villages. Early last week Vientiane reported that the bulk of the Communist forces had apparently withdrawn, leaving behind 1,000 men "to conduct political activity and prepare for the next action by Communist troops...
...bulk of the Chronicle was given over to the governing board's revised rules, since the editors had detected "a certain degree of confusion" among members over Establishment standards, i.e., Sir David "Eccles wearing those fearful shiny shoes, Churchill Minor [Randolph] going on too much." Among the Establishment rules
...wherever possible, the oil camps have given employment to 20,000 Saharans-and thereby increased sales of radios, motor scooters and bicycles in the neighboring oases by 1,000%. Some Moslem employees have even risen to skilled jobs as truckers or members of oil rig crews, but for the bulk of their skilled labor the oil companies are obliged to look to France. To lure and keep the kind of men they need, the companies rely not on high salaries-top wages for an engineer are $700 a month-but on the pioneer spirit, a generous leave policy...