Word: complements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among other things, the late Composer Arnold Schoenberg called for camels, donkeys, onstage animal butchery and sex orgies with naked virgins to complement his twelve-tone melodies in 1932's Moses and Aaron. Schoenberg himself once said that the opera is "undoable," but now a plucky band of Britons led by Royal Shakespeare Theater Director Peter Hall, 34, has decided to stage it at London's Covent Garden. First off, Sheena the camel smashed one set in rehearsal, put her foot through another, had to be dropped from the cast. That left the donkeys, etc. Then the censors...
...progress. Then, suddenly, the strike was all but over. Not a single Guildsman was back at work last week, but the Sun still managed to publish morning and evening papers. "Things from our point of view are very bright," said Promotion Director Rob ert Kavanaugh. "We have a sufficient complement to put out the papers as our people know them...
...only a fraction are presently involved in either Viet Nam or the Dominican Republic. Some 27,000 of the Seventh Fleet's 64,000 men are on duty in the South China Sea and 9,900 men of the Second Fleet's complement of 20,000 are stationed in the Caribbean. Elsewhere, the Navy has the Sixth Fleet, with 50 ships, 200 planes and 25,000 men in the Mediterranean, and the First Fleet, with 90 ships, 420 planes and 60,000 men in the Pacific...
...same time, there are definite advantages in a joint organization. The two universities have different strengths, and working together they tend to complement each other. More important, because of the Joint Center, Harvard and M.I.T. are not directly competing for graduate students and faculty in these areas...
...staggers into the air carrying 6,000 rounds of machinegun ammunition and 14 rockets, or a "Hawg," a version of the Huey, which packs 48 rockets. Since last September, when Hunt arrived in Viet Nam, his outfit, the 197th Aviation Company, has suffered eight dead-out of a total complement of 160 officers...