Word: drews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...naturally produced a gratifying set of stories, pictures and lists in the newspapers. The 333,334 tickets were packed into a great transparent drum. A smaller drum contained the names of the 332 horses nominated for the sweepstakes. One by one, in full view of an audience, beautiful girls drew one ticket from each drum, thereby matching each horse with a lucky ticket holder-the odds in favor of being lucky, obviously, were slightly less than one in a thousand...
...election day drew near, most observers favored Frei, expecting him to win by 100,000 to 200,000 votes. Allende's supporters loudly insisted that their man would be elected, promised mass demonstrations "to proclaim our victory." Fearing that the demonstrations might turn into full-scale riots, the government sent troops to guard every polling place...
Last week the Pittsburgh Symphony was embarked on a twelve-week tour of Europe and the Near East sponsored by the State Department. Its two performances at the Herodes Atticus amphitheater in Athens drew 9,000 listeners. At the Lucerne Festival, the audience awarded the orchestra such a thunderous ovation that the festival management broke a longstanding rule and allowed an encore. The Pittsburghers' triumphant week was climaxed by a tempestuous reception for its Edinburgh Festival debut, with the Queen leading the applause...
...away of the splendor and pomp of Versailles and Louis XIV. Aristocrats yearned to lay aside their powdered wigs and play peasant. Marie-Antoinette's fake hamlet in the Trianon park was a doll's house for kings in fustian and queens in dirndls. Watteau and Boucher drew members of the nobility in shepherds' clothing. But aristocracy saw poverty as happy simplicity, not as a wretched problem. Came the French Revolution of 1789, and the wistful sound in the sea shell was no longer heard...
Died. Peter Lanyon, 46, British abstract painter, who drew inspiration by soaring over his native Cornwall in a red glider, then came down to record his sensations in whirling masses of rust reds, lichen greens and salt whites that vigorously joined the rugged earth below and the dazzling sky above; of injuries sustained when his glider nosedived into a macadam airstrip in Somerset, England...