Word: franks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case had indicted only students for their part in the rioting that preceded the shooting. Former Attorney General John Mitchell had refused even to convene a federal grand jury. His successor, Elliot Richardson, had done so, and eight Guardsmen were indicted. But after hearing the evidence, Federal Judge Frank Battisti had thrown out the charges on a technicality...
Most musicians prefer scoring movies to writing for television. Not so Joe Raposo, 36, whose credits include ballads for Frank Sinatra, The Carpenters and Jose Feliciano, as well as the theme for Sesame Street. At ten, Raposo already showed the facility and ingenuity that are essential for a commercial composer. A piano student, he invented a two-handed speed method for orchestration. Each finger represents a symphonic choir. Notes played by the pinky and fourth fingers of the right hand are assigned to violins and flutes, the third and second fingers represent the clarinets and oboes, the thumbs are both...
...early '60s Paley became envious of the growing prestige of his No. 2 man, President Frank Stanton. Though Paley had long led Stanton to believe that he would become chairman when Paley retired in 1966, he reneged and decided to stay on. The two men distrusted each other thereafter until Stanton's retirement...
...Chinese, too, were making rapid progress in their earthquake-forecast studies. When a delegation of U.S. scientists headed by M.I.T. Geologist Frank Press toured Chinese earthquake-research centers in October 1974, they were astonished to learn that the country had some 10,000 trained earthquake specialists (more than ten times the American total). They were operating 17 major observation centers, which in turn receive data from 250 seismic stations and 5,000 observation points (some of which are simply wells where the radon content of water is measured). In addition, thousands of dedicated amateurs, mainly high school students, regularly collect...
...deflects theoretical discussions with the imperious reply: "I build." For him, every structure poses its own questions of balance between man, machines and nature. Every answer is therefore fresh, poetic, charged with the identity of its architect. Mies van der Rohe had this quality; so did Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright. Now Aalto, whom Wright called "a genius" 40 years ago, stands alone...