Word: following
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drew from an audience were more important than anything else in a concert. If this necessitated a breach in propriety or break from formal performance practice, he sanctioned it. Stokowski conducted without a baton, and partly because of that was considered one of the most difficult conductors to follow. He relied in its stead upon subtle gestures and facial expressions to produce the desired results. Stokowski allowed himself to get carried away by the music, thrilling lay audiences but offending purists who preferred to hear performances that obeyed composers' markings to a holy and scrupulous degree...
...only one previous run-in with sailing. While in the Peace Corps in Panama, she sailed with San Blas Indians in a wooden dugout canoe equipped with a flour-sack sail. Arriving in Newport not knowing a boom from a bilge pump, she quickly picked up enough expertise to follow the final trials. Says McGeary: "I decided to pass up the chance to sail in the America's Cup press regatta scheduled for the first lay day of the races. I still don't know how to sail-except on paper...
More thrills were to follow. Lance swiftly established himself as one of the most important figures in the Carter Administration, his powers extending far beyond his job as Director of the Office of Management and Budget. He was one of the President's top economic advisers, his affable and reassuring ambassador to the business community and his most effective emissary to Capitol Hill. A great, shambling, unassuming bear of a man (6 ft. 4 in., 235 Ibs.), Lance loved to swap jokes, slap backs and artfully cajole the powerbrokers to go along with Jimmy. More important, Lance was Carter...
...Arctic Gas Pipeline Project. The group, which at its height included 27 companies, proposed to construct a 48-in. line. It would begin at the Alaskan field of Prudhoe Bay (proven reserves of 26 trillion cu. ft., enough to supply current U.S. needs for more than a year) and follow the northern coastline to Canada's Mackenzie Bay deposits before heading south to carry...
...thousands of children are totally neglected," reports Narrator Patricia Neal, herself once paralyzed by a stroke. The program ends with a plea to see that the act is properly implemented ("Talk to your P.T.A., principals, to the school board"). After the film, 109 of the stations are to broadcast follow-ups in which special education teachers, legislators and parents of the handicapped will be available to answer phone-in questions...