Word: eights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first space compositions using nonelectronic sounds. Significantly, both works had their premieres in large, barnlike fairground buildings rather than on normal concert stages. In Gruppen, three orchestral groups totaling 109 players curve around three sides of the audience; in Carre, four groups of 20 players each, plus eight to twelve singers, face outward from a central circle. Both compositions fill the air with hard-edged blocks of dissonance that collide, clash and splinter with a force that is almost visual. The ultimate result is not unlike life in a crowded tenement building, with many windows open and a blaring radio...
...correspond with TIME, for we make it a practice to answer every letter-whether it is written to praise or criticize, to point out an error or to offer information. The great volume of letters to the editor-55,000 last year-is handled by a staff of eight letter correspondents headed by Maria Luisa Cisneros...
...Hickel's confirmation was delayed by opposition from some Senate Democrats. He was sworn later in the week.) Perhaps to further his effort to boost the Cabinet's prestige, Nixon suggested that one of its members might run for President some day. After all, he pointed out, eight previous Presidents were Cabinet alumni.* But he warned: "If any of you is going to come through, we must get to work. It is time for the Cabinet meeting, 8:30." The President also recalled Teddy Roosevelt's "tennis Cabinet" and Herbert Hoover's "medicine-ball Cabinet...
Last week's three incidents brought the number of planes skyjacked in the first three weeks of 1969 to eight. At that rate, this year should easily break the alarming 1968 record of 28. There have been 46 skyjackings to Cuba since the first U.S. airliner was forced to land there in May 1961, and despite the enormous risks of midair piracy, the skyjackings have miraculously caused no fatalities or even a single injury. The routine-including the standard radio message-has become well-established...
...bizarre and frightful contagion, no fewer than ten other young men, six inside Czechoslovakia and four elsewhere in Europe, set themselves ablaze in eight days following Palach's suicide. They included a 23-year-old Brno locksmith who burned himself in front of a memorial to Palach; a 24-year-old Czechoslovak serving time for robbery; and a 35-year-old Austrian dairy worker who had just been dismissed from his job. None apparently acted from political motives, and several had previous records of suicide attempts. Local authorities could only speculate that they thought they could somehow achieve Palach...