Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What did they play? Mostly what they always have. The overture to Wagner's Die Meistersinger was done 127 times, making it the most played single item-possibly because it is in C major, the easiest key to play in. Brahms' First Symphony ranks second (114 performances). Beethoven's Fifth, whose dit-dit-dit-dah victory opening can be whistled by more nonmusical people than any other classical theme, is way down to 39th place on the list, as against tenth last year. Mozart is the most popular composer (1,627 performances overall), with Beethoven and Brahms...
...that once all-male mode of transport, the freight car. A petty thief, lacking a gun for a sudden job, knew that corruption was so rampant that he could borrow the needed weapon from a cop on patrol. At farm foreclosure sales, friends would gather, bid 10? for every item, scare others out of bidding more, then give everything back to the farmer. And in his mother's hotel, Terkel, then in his teens, sensed that the Depression had set in for keeps when he noticed the increased wear on the cards and checkerboards available to guests sitting around...
...major item is the public debt, which has risen from $323 billion to $373 billion since 1965. largely because of the deficits caused by the Viet Nam War. Interest payments on this debt for fiscal 1971 are expected to reach $ 19 billion, of which $11 billion can be traced to the costs of Viet Nam and past wars. The interest paid on the debt from World War II has amounted to about $200 billion...
...unstinting praise from socialist leaders like Nasser and Libya's Muammar Gaddafi and ample funds from conservative rulers in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. But the radical guerrillas are something else. They raise the specter of Arab fighting Arab rather than Israel. With the Jordanian events as a leading item on the agenda, Gaddafi last week welcomed other leaders to an impromptu Arab summit in Tripoli. Although some invitations went out scarcely a day before the conferences began, six government leaders came. Among them was Hussein, who felt secure enough to travel...
...Another item on the Tripoli agenda was peace, or at least ceasefire. Nasser, who was there, was recently interviewed for U.S. television by Harvard Law Professor Roger Fisher. In the interview, aired last week, the Egyptian President proposed terms for a ceasefire. If Israel would agree to withdrawal from territories occupied in the 1967 war, he said, Egypt would agree to a six-month cease-fire to carry out the withdrawal. Israel would also have to restore "Palestinian rights"-complying with the U.N. November 1967 resolution on the Middle East-meaning presumably that it would repatriate or compensate a million...