Word: high
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trumpet shall be heard on high...
...Hates. Casa Ricordi was founded in Milan in 1808 by a violinist who, so the legend goes, noticed that the workers around La Scala wore paper hats made of discarded musical scores. Giovanni Ricordi investigated, found that valuable scores and orchestra parts were stacked high in La Scala's cellar. He began to buy up some of the scores, set himself up as a copyist, got a contract stipulating that all the scores he produced would remain his property after a performance. In an age without copyrights or royalties on performances, he funneled some of his earnings back...
When 16-year-old Sylvia Ruuska arrived in Australia early last month, toting her textbooks to keep up on high school homework, the reception was overwhelming. "Back home I guess that hardly anyone's ever heard of me," she said. "But out here everyone seems to know all about my times and everything. It's fantastic." Sylvia cuddled koalas, toured amusement parks, visited Dancer Fred Astaire on a movie set, but never lost sight of why she had come: to show swim-conscious Australians what an American girl could do. By the time she returned to California this...
...Weikko Ruuska drills her incessantly, lumbers up and down the poolside while Sylvia performs, shouting "Giddyap, giddyap!" in a voice that some declare can be heard all the way across San Francisco Bay on clear nights. The Ruuska family practices togetherness. Each morning Mrs. Ruuska drives Sylvia to Berkeley High School on her way to the Y.M.C.A., where she is membership clerk. When overtime work keeps father Ruuska away, his wife takes over his "Y" chores as swimming coach. When the Ruuskas are not coaching Sylvia, they are schooling her younger sister Patricia...
...incident revealed that1) the U.S. had prudently installed a system to check incoming travelers for radioactive material; 2) nuclear bomb tests have left enough radioactive debris in the atmosphere to contaminate high-flying planes. Pan Am's 707 had been flying at about 35,000 ft., and the radioactive particles had stuck to oily outside surfaces; when the mechanics checked the aircraft, their gloves and clothes picked up a charge...