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...flap off into the fading sunset. Instead, he flew into Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, his baton carving the air, his left hand kneading a softly glowing tone from the strings. In Copland's Quiet City, he moved with the sure, deft strokes of a tailor stitching a hem, weaving the complex patterns into a taut whole. The interpretations, typically, were masterpieces of lucidity and logic, and at concert's end the audience at Stanford University awarded a resounding ovation to Geneva's Ernest Ansermet and his Orchestre de la Suisse Romande...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conductors: Mellowing Rebel | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

...Government, disagreed. "We won't be driven out of Vietnam--the figures are credible that the North is losing more troops, and they will have to stop before we do." Quester said that the Viet Cong had been expecting a military victory, and that the reversal will probably cause hem to lose the momentum they have had until now. But he admitted that prospects still remain uncertain...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: The Hanoi-Haiphong Bombings | 7/8/1966 | See Source »

...sure is. In the eight months since Menk, 48, took over the 117-year-old Burlington, he has even shifted advertising agencies for the first time in 40 years, redesigned timetables (the covers now show a comely girl with an above-the-knee hem line), and started redecorating the line's 54-year-old headquarters in Chicago to discard what he calls the creaky "railroad look." Lou Menk has also reshuffled management, introduced a human-relations course that executives call "the charm school," figures that by emphasizing such small changes, he will get his employees to think seriously about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Railroads: Casey Jones Is Dead | 6/10/1966 | See Source »

Leverett could gain as many as fifty points in the House golf tournament which ends today. No one scored very well in Tuesday's first round but Leverett's five man average of 87.4 gives hem the lead going into the final 18 holes. Eliot lagged far back in the field Tuesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot, Leverett Fight for Straus Cup | 5/19/1966 | See Source »

...Hollywood had gathered to pay Mrs. Washington solemn tribute. It must have dazzled her beyond description to watch the long ranks of limousines disgorge the great celebrities. There, with Actor George Hamilton, was Lynda Bird Johnson in an orange brocade thing with a mink hem, and a hair and makeup job courtesy of Hollywood's George Masters. And there was Lana Turner in a $2,000 number described as beaded chiffon, and Shelley Winters in a black sheath with organza Quaker collar and a rented diamond necklace-which somehow got misplaced for a while backstage, provoking from Shelley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Ticky-Tack | 4/29/1966 | See Source »

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