Word: da
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kimball Jones will conduct tennis lessons two afternoons a week for four weeks at a cost of $10. for the series. The first meeting is Friday at 2 p.m. outside the varsity tennis courts near Soldiers Field. If private instruction is desired contact Kimball Jones at DA...
...only real competitor, Westinghouse, makes about 25% of its money by maintaining the elevators it installs. A battery of 58 Otises hum up and down the Empire State Building; Otis elevators lift planes aboard the carriers Saratoga and Independence and promenaders aboard such liners as the France, the Leonardo da Vinci and Cunard's Queens, raise Atlas and Titan missiles into firing positions at missile sites...
...Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean from 1959 to 1961. And Administration officials were pleased to point out that the U.S. is sending an admiral as envoy to a land whose seafaring tradition is still nourished by the long-ago exploits of Prince Henry the Navigator and Vasco da Gama. But even so, for George Anderson the new job is quite a comedown...
...naked belly dancers, Nubian slaves, blue-faced soldiers, ballet dancers painted green from head to toe. And when Radames made his second-act victory procession, he came on at the head of 200 soldiers and 100 Ethiopian slaves. In an ardent effort to recreate the splendor of Aïda's 1871 debut in Cairo (in celebration of the recent opening of the Suez Canal), Zeffirelli chose Second Empire France and Epic Hollywood as his cultural guides. "I have tried to give the public the best that Cecil B. De Mille could offer," he said, "but in good taste...
...critics, however, understood his idiom perfectly. "Aïda all' Americana" (Aïda American style), said La Notte, "everything bigger and better than anybody else's." Only the singers noticed that the reviews barely mentioned them at all. "I looked like my grandmother in that ancient costume," said Tenor Bergonzi, "but I don't mind if the directors get the glory today. Opera cannot go on without singers, but it can manage quite well without directors...