Word: coverers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thanks for the great cover story on our young maestro, Zubin Mehta [Jan. 19]. His musical leadership has brought a new breath of life into the culture of our community. May "Zubi Baby" stay among us a long, long time. We need...
...conductors, I wish that you could have awarded more laurels to Mehli Mehta. His work with the American Youth Symphony, largely unheralded and unsung, is truly awesome. Any man who can take a hundred California teenagers and inspire them to attempt the finest music in the symphonic repertoire and cover themselves with glory in brilliant performance deserves his share of limelight and applause. That a tremendous capacity for good lies latent in our oft-maligned American youth has again been demonstrated for us by this man from Bombay...
...Tactical Blunder." Others, recalling the clumsy initial cover-ups attempted during the U-2 and Bay of Pigs disasters, were more circumspect. Presidential Candidate Richard Nixon called the whole affair a "tactical blunder" by the U.S. South Dakota's Senator Karl Mundt, long a G.O.P. supporter of the President's Viet Nam policy, demanded to know why the Administration risked provocative patrols "when you already have more war on your hands than you can handle." Warned Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield: "We ought to keep our shirts on and not go off half-cocked until we know more...
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...items as dictionaries and cookbooks, which the weekly compilations omit. The volume shows how the paperback and population explosions have altered the bestseller concept. A really warm item in 1904 was Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, which so far has sold 1.4 million copies, nearly all of them in hard cover (it is still in print). Forever Amber has sold 1,652,837 hard-cover copies since it was published in 1944. Such once eminently respectable figures are dwarfed by the paperback trade. Peyton Place has sold only 600,000 copies in hard cover since 1956, but paperback sales added...