Word: cy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pneumonic plague. The major biological agents that the Army "keeps on the shelf" ready for use are anthrax, Q-fever, tularemia (rabbit fever) and psittacosis (parrot fever). Stored in sod-covered, concrete "igloos" at the Army's Pine Bluff Arsenal in Arkansas, they are kept in constant cy cles of development, production, storage, elimination and replacement. The quantities now on hand are said to be modest, but the Army has ample resources for fast mass production whenever the need arises...
Fosse the director is sometimes redeemed by Fosse the choreographer. But it is the score however, that remains the show's real strength. Cy Coleman's hip-flip music flows freely from pure ballad (Where Am I Going?) to Bachish parody (Rhythm of Life). Dorothy Fields, 63, won an Oscar for the lyrics of The Way You Look Tonight back in 1936. She may win another for her insistence on writing wittily for the characters instead of warily for the charts...
...good thing for the Baseball Writers' Association that its members decided last year to bestow two Cy Young awards, one for each league. Otherwise, how could they have selected the outstanding pitcher of 1968? In the American League, there was Denny McLain, 24, the Peck's Bad Boy (TIME cover, Sept. 13) who posted an astounding 31-6 record to lead the Detroit Tigers to their first pennant in 23 years. In the National League, the St. Louis Cardinals' Bob Gibson, 33, boasted equally stunning statistics: a 22-9 record that included a phenomenal 13 shutouts...
...Died. Cy Walter, 53, noted supper-club pianist, whose graceful, stylized renditions of such popular tunes as Begin the Beguine were a feature of Manhattan's night life for some 30 years, most recently at the Drake Hotel; of cancer; in Manhattan...
Truc in the Alley will carry exterior decorations for men--French capes, English riding jackets, suits from Bond St.--"but cheap!" emphasizes Cy Harvey, "cheap so the students can buy them...