Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Still, it is one of the realities of symphony life that players' salaries in the top 25 orchestras last year averaged only $5,267. The cultural explosion has attracted wider support, but resources are still woefully lacking. Though performing-arts centers are shooting up as fast as prefab bungalows, many orchestras must play under less than ideal conditions. The New Orleans Philharmonic, which performs in the Municipal Auditorium, often has to compete with the roars from a wrestling match on the other side of the wall; concerts in St. Louis' Kiel auditorium are punctuated with cheers at Hawks...
...year, Government analysts figure that imports increase at the same pace. When gross national product swells at a rate of 8% to 9% a year, as it did in the last three months of 1965, then such is the increase in buying power that imports grow twice as fast. In the fourth quarter, they shot up 17½% and Commerce experts predict that performance will continue through 1966. As a result, the U.S. trade surplus-the excess of exports over imports-continues to melt, from $6.7 billion in 1964 to $4.8 billion in 1965 to its present annual rate...
...world monetary reform, caused U.S. corporations to invade the European market for dollar bonds, prompted Charles de Gaulle to keep cashing in France's dollars for U.S. gold at a $33 million-a-month clip. Last week the Administration got more bad news: imports are climbing so fast that the nation may well run a $1.8 billion payments deficit this year, as against $1.3 billion...
Reverse Strike A hulking, meaty, headstrong man, the father of five children, Dolci is a complex of anomalies who seems to pious Italians a devious political crank, and to political reformers a man of exasperating otherworldliness who will fast and pray to get a road built...
...have done an admirable job in fitting together the bits and pieces in the Sorge case, and in doing so provide an engrossing study of the tedious side of spying. Spy-thriller fans should be warned, however, that the book is too densely packed with scholarly detail to be fast-moving and exciting; it bristles not with action but with footnotes...