Word: grandes
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When an airplane hits another airplane in flight, there are no survivors. This axiom of aeronautic safety has been demonstrated most graphically twice in the past two years: first when 128 people were killed in a collision over the Grand Canyon in June, 1956, and then last month, when an airliner and a jet trainer collided over the Nevada desert...
...Harvard Glee Club, the Radcliffe Choral Society and two grand pianos will hold forth from the steps of Widener at 7 p.m. tonight in the second in the annual series of Yard Concerts. The Groups will present selections from the Bach B-Minor Mass...
...Beating to windward in light air, American Skipper Warner Willcox eased his sleek, 33-ft. International Class sloop into a commanding lead, finished well ahead in the last of seven races to lead his team to victory over the Bermudians for the 51-year-old Amorita Cup, grand prize of Bermuda Race Week...
...Rome's Palazzo Barberini, whimsical, Sicilian-born Emilio Greco, 44, winner of the top Italian sculpture award at the last Venice Biennale, showed 42 sculptures covering 20 years' work. To Sculptor Greco's delight, it was his newest work, three monumental bronze Grand Bathers, that had the critics (including famed Italian Sculptor Giacomo Manzù) singing his praises...
...Astronomer Fred Whipple of Harvard thinks that although the moon may have plenty of dust, its surface has been solidified. There may be a thin layer "like dust on a grand piano," but the underlying material, cemented together (not stirred up) by bombardment from space, is probably "crunchy" and strong enough to support an alighting spaceship...