Word: ist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...someone heaves a shot farther than before. The 1959 distance of 63 ft. 4 in. achieved by two-time Olympic Champion Parry O'Brien (6 ft. 3 in., 250 lbs.) is still officially recognized as the world record. But in recent weeks it has been bettered by Army ist Lieut. Bill Nieder (6 ft. 3 in., 240 lbs.) with a put of 65 ft. 7 in., by California's Dallas Long (6 ft. 4 in., 263 lbs.) with 64 ft. 6½ in., and by Californian Dave-Davis (6 ft. 3½ in., 265 lbs.) with...
...role demanded. In minor roles, Soprano Laurel Hurley and Tenor Charles Anthony were adequate as the jailer's daughter, Marzelline, and the turnkey Jacquino, and Bass Oskar Czerwenka contributed a strong, virile-voiced Jailer Rocco. But in their first-act quartet in the form of a canon, Mir ist so wunderbar, the four were often shakily uneven. The only real star of the evening proved to be Canadian Tenor Jon Vickers as Florestan, who sang his moving second-act aria, In des Lebens Frühlingstagen (In the springtime days of life), with conviction and power. The orchestra under...