Word: hornings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Orchestra has attained a level of proficiency where such defects as timid openings and sloppy horn passages should be removed in rehearsal. Except for these lapses, the Orchestra played well, and its wind solos continued to be exceptionally lovely. The strings require more warmth and feeling in their glossy tone, but, as a section, they sound very well. The full orchestra, playing alone, was too constrained for such a highly dramatic work...
...republic's Defense Minister last year, stocky, hard-driving Franz Josef Strauss has been preparing plans for a home army "under German not NATO control, to try and protect the Fatherland." Last week Strauss named a member of an old Prussian military family, Major General Hans-Joachim von Horn, 61, to organize and command such a force...
Within five years Strauss plans to create a new army of 700,000 men either in active service or trained and ready for service within 48 hours. Of these, fewer than half will join NATO forces under latest reduced targets; all the rest will belong to Von Horn's Territorial Defense Command. A 4,000-man nucleus has already been assembled in the last two months around Koblenz and Cologne...
...Horn force is to be a sort of revolving reserve of trained men. No more than 80,000 territorialists will be in uniformed service at one time, some getting their three to six months' basic training, others returning for weekend refreshers (all will serve within 25 miles of home if possible). Such troops would eventually be equipped with tanks, artillery and antiaircraft weapons (but not, in present thinking, with planes...
...rodeo stock well. Usually he knows which bronc will give him a good, fishtailing ride; which bull will come out of the chute bucking, or which will plunge several feet and then start spinning. Most of the time he knows the safest side for dismounting when the horn sounds the end of the ride...