Word: ingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These caves will never be crowded. They demand skill in mountaineer- "The Last Frontier: The Strange World," as one Grotto flyer puts it. When every last mountain has been ing, plus thorough experience with the special problems of mud, darkness, and water. Any accident in a cave is doubly serious, so the advanced caver has to be a first aid expert. Often cavers participate in rescue programs such as the Boston Grotto's Cave Rescue Communications Network...
...that last week at Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall when he strode on stage - all 5 ft. 4 in. and 116 lbs. of him - and played Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with elegance and grace, a tone pure and silken, and a technique that was a marvel of dizzy ing leaps and lightning runs. During the long ovation that followed, Conductor Leonard Bernstein embraced Nadien, and the violinist motioned for the orchestra to stand up and take a bow. Instead, they stayed seated and ap plauded and tapped their bows against their music stands...
Died. Edward Tirella, 42, interior decorator and sometime actor (he designed the set for The Sandpiper, had a small role in the film), longtime friend and frequent house guest of Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke; of multiple fractures and internal injuries suffered on the Duke estate; in Newport, R.I. Leav ing the estate in a car driven by Miss Duke, Tirella got out to open the iron gates, was crushed to death when the car suddenly shot forward...
...fingers calloused from handshak ing, the Governor has used bus, heli copter and his family's jet-prop plane, The Wayfarer, to bound from one up state community to the next. He has clambered up ladders at construction sites, tossed footballs with college boys, delivered weighty university lectures on federalism, at one point even dropped in on a Jewish circumcision celebration...
...built detectors that spot guerrillas by their slightest sounds or movements. They can literally sniff an enemy's presence by the very odors of his body, food or clothing. "What we are trying here," says Physicist R. D. Holbrook, who heads the U.S. contingent at MRDC, "is noth ing less than a systematic approach to the entire counterinsurgency problem. There's time to do in Thailand what we could have done elsewhere - including Viet Nam - if only we had started soon enough...