Word: easts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Standing on his accomplishments, Zubin Mehta may truly be regarded as one of this country's leading conductors. However, his "unabashed immodesty" and his exceedingly high opinion of himself may eventually reveal this bright young star from the East to be the mere twinkle in the eye of a pompous...
...Sanh has been dug out of the red clay of a plateau that is ringed by high hills thick with trees and bamboo. Some 15 miles south of the DMZ and only ten miles east of the Laotian border, the Marine base lies directly athwart the easiest infiltration routes into South Viet Nam. To eliminate the roadblock, the North Vietnamese have ranged an estimated 20,000 men directly around Khe Sanh, have at least another 20,000 in reserve in Laos and immediately north of the DMZ, all located within 20 miles of the post. Together, they constitute the largest...
...streak to the N.B.A. champions. Last month, on the night Bill Bradley was making his debut with the Knicks, Bing stole the show and the ballgame with 32 points. Last week, as the only second-year man chosen to start the N.B.A.'s All-Star game, which the East won 144-124, Bing contributed the gem of the evening. He stole a pass, drove in for a lay-up only to find his shot blocked; still in midair, he wrenched around, shifted the ball from his left to his right hand and sank it from a different angle...
...Fulton, Mo., that Winston Churchill first used the term Iron Curtain, in a speech there in 1946. But to the members of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, 100 miles east of Fulton, the really troublesome iron curtain was the one that divided the massive Kiel Auditorium into two parts: a symphony hall on one side and a sports arena on the other. Once, Pianist Andre Watts, playing a concerto with the orchestra, heard a strange noise. "I thought something was wrong with the timpani," he said, "but it was only applause for a basketball game on the other side...
...engineering test that was a preliminary to actual laser experiments during the Apollo moon mission, a group headed by University of Maryland Physicists Carroll Alley and Douglas Currie set up the lasers in four East Coast locations in addition to the two in the West. Each was projected backwards through a telescope-into the viewing end-toward Surveyor's lunar site. The telescopes were used not only to aim the beams precisely but also to further confine the beam of the coherent laser light, which diverges very little even without telescopic aid. Alley estimates that both beams had diverged...