Word: enthusiasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...piano rolls were hidden in a Black Forest cave during World War II, and in 1948, an American enthusiast named Richard Simonton bought the rolls from the poor and aging Welte. But the first attempts to record them two years later were marred by everything from the sound of overhead airplanes to freezing temperatures that kept the piano out of tune. Further attempts since then have achieved somewhat better results, but nothing close to contemporary sound standards. Last year Simonton turned the rolls over to Walter Heebner, 46, a master of modern recording techniques. Played back on a modern Steinway...
...cover up wet bathing suits for drinks on the clubhouse verandah (après beach, nothing picks one up like a good belt). It is also socially acceptable for cocktails and dinner at the most exclusive playgrounds in the East. And house wives love it. "Just perfect," says one enthusiast, "not only cool, but some thing you can wear with individuality "belted or unbelted or belted low around the hips or even in an Empire line...
President Lee A. DuBridge of Caltech is a qualified enthusiast. He believes that merely "getting a couple of guys to the moon and bringing them back" is hardly worth doing. But space exploration to gain more knowledge of the universe can be "one of the great scientific achievements or enterprises of all time. Its impact on the world and mankind is simply beyond calculation...
Married. Briggs Cunningham, 56, millionaire sports-car builder-driver and yachtsman who skippered Columbia to victory in the 1958 America's Cup; and Laura Maxine Elmer, 39, also a sports-car enthusiast; both for the second time; in El Paso, Texas, the day after Cunningham divorced his wife of 33 years (three children) in Juarez, Mexico...
Keating is in great demand at Washington parties, but he is no social lion, rarely drinks, and smokes only an occasional cigar. A physical fitness enthusiast, he swims a good deal, exercises on arising every morning, guzzles a mixture of apple cider vinegar and honey to ward off colds...