Word: fifths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Next year," said Saxophonist Paul Desmond, "maybe they could arrange to have Eisenhower at the same time." Just about everybody else, it seemed, was on hand last week for the opening of the fifth and biggest Newport (R.I.) Jazz Festival. The Duke was back for a Tribute-to-Ellington night; Benny Goodman was there for nostalgia. Trumpeter Miles Davis had declined this year's invitation: "What, me dig that crazy scene? Never!" But he too was there last week-along with Gerry Mulligan, Dave Brubeck, Lee Konitz, Sonny Rollins and a clutch of others-because the "crazy scene...
...some similar effect on higher animals, including humans. If such a process is discovered, not much DNA will be needed. The entire supply of DNA that could control the heredity of the next generation of the human species (several billion individuals) could be put in a cube one twenty-fifth of an inch on a side...
...celebrated European violin and piano team of Paul Makanowitzky and Noel Lee will present the fourth and fifth in their series of free concerts at Brandeis University's Slosberg Auditorium on July...
...since linked Espaillat, Frank and Schmahl to each other and to Murphy. Detective Frank has been sentenced to eight months to two years in prison for failing to register as a Dominican agent (he has appealed). Schmahl took the Fifth Amendment before a federal grand jury. Trujillo has refused to waive Espaillat's diplomatic immunity for questioning by the FBI. Instead, Trujillo paid at least $100,000 for an investigation by Manhattan Lawyer Morris Ernst, once famed for defending noble causes, who last month found "not a scintilla of evidence" connecting Murphy and Galíndez...
...Mexican manager moved his boys from the first to the fifth floor of their hotel, hoping to confound athletic females with a nocturnal talent for window climbing. The Mexicans, too, were defeated. But they were not the only ones to reap extracurricular rewards. One luminous Swedish night an enterprising reporter camped outside the Northern Ireland team's hotel at 2 a.m., counted four window-climbing girls in half an hour...