Word: highlight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hearing tom-toms, marimbas, vibraphone and celesta. He committed these exotic cerebral sounds to paper, and last week a Parisian audience jammed into the Theatre des Champs-Elysées to hear the results, interpreted by Guest Conductor Leonard Bernstein and the French National Orchestra. Popular verdict: an exciting highlight in Composer Constant's promising young career...
...bound Danish steamer, thumbed his way to Illinois and wrote a thesis on French influences there. Architecture Student François Calsat pedaled a creaky bicycle all over the jungles of French West Africa, won a top prize for his study of architecture and folkways among the Dahomey tribes. Highlight of his report: an account of a month spent as guest of 80-year-old Tunko Cessi, bangana of the warlike Bariba tribe...
Championship contests in football, touch football, and soccer will highlight 12 games between the Houses and the Yale colleges this afternoon. In addition, the freshman touch football champions from Matthews North will face the Eli title-holding North Middle team...
...Another highlight of Kennedy's afternoon visit to Cambridge is a trip to the Jewish Community Center at 6:30. A public reception in the Hotel Commander at 8:00 rounds out his schedule...
...peered over thick steaks and cool drinks at the dirt track below. Roosevelt Raceway, the orange-and-magenta pleasure dome at Westbury, N.Y. was having its biggest harness-racing season in history. A record $144 million had been bet in the first 82 days of the meeting. For the highlight Messenger Stake* prize money had reached $108,565, making it the richest pacing race of all time...