Word: ch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prefecture of police. He discussed the problem with his old friend, Captain Jean Barbaud, physicist and fellow graduate of the Val de Grâce military hospital. Together they worked out an answer. They brought the hair from a known arsenic victim to "Zoé," the atomic pile at Châtillon. For eight days they bombarded the hair in the pile's neutron flux. Then, when the elements it contained were thoroughly radioactive, they shielded the hair with lead, exposed it, one millimeter at a time, to a Geiger counter. The rate of growth of human hair...
...unhappy family moved to the coldly formal Châateau de Laeken, just outside Brussels. There Leopold and his mother, Queen Elizabeth, with a regiment of nurses, governesses and tutors, supervised young Baudouin's preparation for the King business. Like his sister & brother, the young prince rose each morning at 7, pattered in to wish his grandmother good morning, did setting-up exercises before breakfast. He was bitter when his sister bested him. "I'm a man," he told the gym instructor imperiously. "The idea of your thinking I can't do as well as a girl...
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 1, ChÔros No. 4 & No. 7 (chambergroups, Werner Janssen conducting; Capitol, 2 sides LP). South America's No. 1 composer writes here for such combinations as eight cellos, three horns and a trombone, five woodwinds and two strings and gong. Typical Villa-Lobos: brilliant color and exotic rhythms. Performance and recording: good...
...Chávez and Covarrubias have long been fascinated with the Aztec legend of the Four Suns. Chávez, in fact, composed an orchestral program piece about it in 1925. The legend: the earth was created and destroyed four times by each of the elements -water, air, fire and earth (through drought). Last fall, Covarrubias showed Dancer Limón some sketches for sets and costumes, convinced him he was just the man to do the choreography. Limón liked the subject, thought it might lead to "the kind of [dance] movement that is my meat...
...Moscow. Against Covarrubias' huge, color-splashed drops, 64 masked dancers tumbled, twisted and stretched. In the final ceremonial dance of thanks, they were reinforced by a corps of musclemen from a local physical education school. With 65 musicians and a chorus of 36 to play and chant Chávez' powerful rhythmic music, the effect was volcanic...