Word: finalizing
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...scores so that camera angles could be synchronized with changes in the mood of the music. Then, one day last January, two simulated performances were videotaped. Only after all this-which cost a big chunk of the $275,000 that CBS spent to produce the program-did Horowitz give final approval. The actual show was taped before an invited audience a month later...
...team is going through its paces in the Pyrenees and the West Germans are heading for a training camp in Flagstaff, Ariz. It appears that there is little to worry about. Last week at Echo Summit, Calif, (alt. 7,377 ft.), where U.S. hopefuls battled it out in the final Olympic trials, track and field men put on a startling display of record breaking...
Sudden Smashup. Before the central bankers hammered out final details of the scheme in Basel, the signs of a monetary storm were all too evident. Buffeted by the Czech crisis and persistent clamor for an upward revaluation of the strong West German deutschmark (a move that was drawing money out of London), the pound had sunk to within a whisker of its post-devaluation low of $2.38¼ in foreign exchange centers. Harold Lever, financial secretary to the British Treasury and a key figure in selling the scheme abroad, noted: "If the agreement had not been achieved, there would have...
Beset by problems from its inception, the American SST will not go into service for at least two years after its originally scheduled takeoff date of mid-1974. Boeing, understandably red-faced, denies somewhat defensively that it has made a final decision. But the economics of its swing-wing B-2707 has forced the Seattle company to put practicality over pride. Although wind-tunnel tests showed that the movable wing could perform well aerodynamically, it developed an insuperable weight problem. Carrying the 313-passenger payload envisioned for it, the 375-ton swing-wing SST would have had about one-half...
...with the world's largest ad agency, Strouse wanted no fanfare and got none. From his corner office he sorted out personal belongings, which include 100 owls in a collection started in the days when a wise old owl was J. Walter's trademark. Strouse had a final cup of coffee and a last cigar with colleagues. Then he took a "down" elevator to Manhattan's Lexington Avenue and headed off to a retirement house in Northern California's Napa Valley...