Word: eras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Musical Satires. Many people have moved their dinner back an hour so that they will not miss the latest exposes about the Novotnŷ era on the 7 p.m. television news. One listener recently complained to Radio Prague about government jamming of Western broadcasts. In no time at all, the station produced the apologetic voice of the Minister of Culture, Miroslav Galuska, who announced that the government planned to abolish jamming. At the Semafor, a cellar theater in Prague, S.R.O. crowds gather three nights a week to laugh and cry out in shocked surprise at a musical satire, The Last...
...ordinary cargo planes would be necessary to move an infantry brigade from Hawaii to Viet Nam-and the brigade's heaviest equipment would have to go by ship. By contrast, just 20 C-5s could handle the whole operation. The plane, said the President, ushers in a "new era in America's power...
...Passenger Potential. It might also signal a new era in civilian-pas-senger and freight transportation. Lockheed plans to put out a nonmilitary version of the C-5-the L-500-by 1971. In an all-passenger configuration, the L-500 could conceivably carry up to 1,000 people, which would allow airlines to slice New York-London fares...
...foresaw new challenges, new problems for the court-the Fortas court. "It was one thing to have enunciated great principles," Fortas says of the Warren era, which he admires greatly. "But it is another thing to make them come alive." There would be new concerns as the Justices explored the terms and conditions of welfare programs, which are based on confusing and sometimes ambiguous laws, and there would probably be a re-examination of the relationship between the courts and the federal regulatory agencies. The operation of the federal courts themselves is a matter for concern...
Died. Ziggy Elman, 54, self-taught trumpeter who kept the nation jumping during the swing era; in Los Angeles. Born Harry Finkelman, he changed his name after he signed with Benny Goodman in 1936, joined the Tommy Dorsey band in 1940, and after the war formed his own group. His signature tune, And the Angels Sing, which he adapted from a Jewish wedding dance, was the best-known piece in a musical bag filled with inventiveness...