Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first wife and a former pupil of Elie's, the fellow with the apes and the cockatoos. After his debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1946, Lewenthal toured the U.S. for three years. While he was walking through Central Park one summer evening in 1953, a gang of thugs attacked him with clubs and fractured seven bones in his arms and hands. He recovered without impairment of his playing, but the experience so embittered him that he gave up concertizing for three years and supported himself by playing the piano accompaniment for a girls' gym class at Hunter...
...fiveyear, $2 billion trade pact, agreement on the first direct commercial air service between Moscow and Tokyo, and discussion of a possible Moscow trip for Japanese Premier Eisaku Sato next spring. All of which, Peking complained, "grew out of the new Soviet leadership's line to gang up on People's China with the Sato government...
...victory earned Kidd the Adelboden combined title. More important, it boosted his personal score after two meets to 60 points-20 more than his closest individual competitor, four more than the combined teams of Austria and Italy. So far at least, the U.S.'s one-man gang was No. 1 in the world...
...please a new generation that will never know what it missed. The Garland-Rooney roles are taken over by Singers Connie Francis and Harve Presnell, who mope through the vintage show tunes as though they have memorized the words and music while disowning the message. Instead of getting-the-gang-together-to-put-on-a-dandy-show, they are paying off a gambling debt for Connie's father by running a dude ranch for hot-blooded divorcees awaiting final decrees...
...they discover that they have forgotten to bring tools. Detouring to "basement hardware," they lose more time through a plumbing mishap, Santa's payday and a jammed elevator-then, none too brilliantly, bring off the heist. A couple of minutes later, they lose the cash to a teen gang that has been holding up a tiny dry goods shop down the street...