Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Journal with scoring a scoop in July on the fact that a 7-lb. TV camera developed by Westinghouse was scheduled to provide live coverage on the first Apollo manned mission to the moon [Aug. 19]. Aviation Week printed the first story on this camera and its moon mission Jan. 10, and ran a picture of the camera a week later, along with the story that NASA was studying the feasibility of converting its black and white capability to color for transmission from the lunar surface...
While doing his thesis research, Author Epstein turned up a "supplemental" FBI report dated Jan. 13, 1964 that threw some doubt on all this. The report said that the bullet that struck Kennedy's neck had penetrated "less than a finger-length"-a conclusion that, if true, meant it could not have gone through and hit Connally. This report is the basis for the belief that after Jan. 13 the autopsy report was changed for some devious reason, most likely to rule out the existence of a second assassin. The facts, however, are much simpler: FBI reports are dated...
Delft, today best known for its china, was then the home of many other important painters-notably Jan Steen, who recorded a lustier side of Dutch life, and Carel Fabritius, one of Rembrandt's pupils who may have been Vermeer's teacher. In fact, a local bard, on the occasion of Fabritius' early death, portrays Vermeer, then only 22, as the phoenix who would rise to greatness in his place...
Since then, they have put over such unlikely packages as a Christmas series of four different versions of Handel's Messiah, a "Japan Week" featuring the Toho String Orchestra (with Japanese buffet served at intermissions) and a satiric program of baroque music, P.D.Q. Bach (TIME, Jan. 7), which was so successful that it came back twice to full houses, P.D.Q...
...eleventh consecutive week, the New York Stock Exchange opened with a Monday tinted blue: the Dow-Jones industrial average dropped 13.53 points to 767.03, its lowest level since Jan. 2, 1964. Next day, Treasury Under Secretary Joseph Barr told a House committee that the Government "can't rely on monetary policy much more," must boost taxes or cut spending "if we have to do more" to curb the exuberant U.S. economy...