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When the last bust cycle hit in 1969-70, the people of Wichita decided to do something about it. The city and county governments and the Chamber of Commerce joined with community leaders to recruit diverse businesses to take the burden of employment-and stability-off the aircraft industry. During the '60s about one in four employed Wichitans worked for either Beech Aircraft, Cessna, Boeing or Gates Learjet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Wichita: A Pocket of Prosperity | 12/9/1974 | See Source »

...Even a Chamber accustomed to emotional oratory had rarely heard such rhetoric. Former Conservative Justice Minister Jean Foyer warned the French National Assembly of "the bodies of children piling up in slaughterhouses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Emotional Victory | 12/9/1974 | See Source »

...right-wing Deputy played a tape recording that sounded like a galloping horse and then cried to the silent Chamber: "You are listening to the heartbeat of a fetus of eight weeks and two days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Emotional Victory | 12/9/1974 | See Source »

...York's Carnegie Hall, Andre mined pure gold in three trumpet display pieces accompanied by the very able Wuerttemberg Chamber Orchestra, with which he has been touring the U.S. He imbued Albinoni's Trumpet Concerto in B-flat with a bright, pointy dance of notes that was as mellifluously intricate as any Rossini coloratura aria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Under Pressure | 12/9/1974 | See Source »

...interpretations of jazz standards and blues adaptations of Bach through its own classics-The Golden Striker, The Legendary Profile, Bags' Groove. An expanse of heads nodded rhythmically until a galloping accelerando brought the audience to their feet. The cliche goes that MJQ is a hybrid of jazz and chamber music. Indeed, in their dark business suits, the men looked too sensible to be jazz players. The crowd cheered, not because of virtuosity or precocity, but because MJQ is a throbbing extension of the blues main line that stretches back to the fields of Alabama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gentlemen of Jazz | 12/9/1974 | See Source »

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