Word: come
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Powell is obviously a long way from appealing to the mass audience that applauded his jazz piano in the '40s. "My public now," he says, "is the 250 people who come to hear my works along with those of other avant-garde composers." Still, he could hardly ask for a more appreciative audience than those 250 people-or rather...
Enormous posters appeared on the walls of Jerusalem's Orthodox Jewish quarters. "This must not happen!" the signs warned. "It is a desecration. Come by the thousands to the Holy Wall." Task forces of black-frocked, black-hatted rabbis and students took turns guarding the city's Wailing Wall, while more than 1,000 Jerusalem policemen stood on the alert to prevent violence...
...month, in a surprising paroxysm of activity, Congress passed a bill appropriating his money. After paying his lawyer and splitting with his fellow plaintiffs, Adams and his wife received $517,442.92. Said Bert: "It doesn't mean a thing, really, except that it was right for it to come out this way. What's a man my age going to do with all that money...
Below $40. Britain was not the only troubled country to come away from Basel with cause for optimism. Another was France, whose reserves of gold and dollars have so far dropped from $6.8 billion to $5 billion in its crisis. To help France battle speculative attacks against the franc, the Bank for International Settle ments and central banks of five countries (the U.S., Belgium, The Netherlands, Italy and West Germany) agreed to provide Paris with short-term credits totaling $1.3 billion. At the same time, the Basel conferees sought to dampen gold speculation by devising a scheme by which South...
...sort of observational work that engaged nineteenth century researchers: ice, wildlife, weather, and ocean depth surveys, plus simple physical and psychological tests on the effects of their bleak environment. However, these elementary investigations are crucial to cold regions researchers whose limited data on this huge area so far has come chiefly from a few itinerant ice island stations maintained by the U.S. and U.S.S.R., and from an international ice observation study called Project Bird...