Word: lesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Operating since 1947 on a modest budget of less than $100,000 of public funds yearly, the institute's staff of 35 specialists, headed by scholarly, bespectacled Historian Helmut Krausnick, 54, has assembled and is sifting a mountain of documents of the Nazi years. Its findings of Nazi iniquity are made public in regular quarterly reports sent to 2,000 subscribers throughout the world, and in hundreds of "expert opinions" supplied on request to West German courts trying crimes of the Nazi period...
Christmas Carols (The Deutschmeister Band, conducted by Julius Herrmann; Westminster Stereo). Stately performances by Austria's venerable military brass band of some familiar carols and some less familiar-In Dulci Jubilo, From o'er the Hills of Fair Judea-all of them emerging in richly burnished sound...
They Shined Up Rudolph's Nose (Johnny Horton; Columbia). Singer Horton tries to shine up a hit of Christmas past with sheer lung power. Rudolph's nose, he assures the listeners, "is shining bright/ It looks just like a star." Horton himself has rarely looked less like...
...Carroll has given a surprising amount of thought to what her public-private image should be. "The difficult, dangerous thing for a performer," she says, "is deciding, 'Just who am I?' It must come from living. What you are in life, you are onstage. Maybe a little less inhibited, but the same person." Daughter of a New York subway conductor, Diahann (born Carol Diahann Johnson) showed youthful musical talent, won a Metropolitan Opera scholarship at ten. "That lasted no more than a month," she says, "because I told my mother I wanted to be the roller-skating champion...
...Force's F89 fighter, and Tempo-Alcoa zoomed up to 180 m.p.h. Then he cut the engine. Two miles ahead, a small peninsula called Pelican Point jutted out into the water. The distance seemed safe enough. The boat had earlier slowed from 260 m.p.h. to a stop in less than a mile. But now a sudden breeze stirred sharp ruffles on Pyramid Lake. The chop broke the normal suction grabbing at the hull, turned the water into a fast-running surface. Tempo-Alcoa did not slow, instead seemed to take off at a speed that made the rudder...