Word: listing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guest list read like a Who's Who of Camelot, with such notables as former speaker of the House John D. McCormack; John Kenneth Galbraith, Kennedy's ambassador to India and Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus; and former secretary of defense Robert W. McNamara conspicuous in the crowd...
...Nevada Gov. Robert List this week closed down the Beatty burial ground, and Todd officials said they would just have to store the waste in Texas until the site opens again...
...year-old Buddhist monk's reception here was typical of the enthusiasm that followed him throughout the country. His address on "The Nature of Self" at Sanders Theater last Wednesday drew a crowd of over 1500, and the waiting list for tickets stretched into the hundreds. Over 200 graduate students and faculty members filled his seminar on "Buddhism and Society" given at the Divinity School the next day, and requests for interviews, audiences and autographs innundated him until he left Saturday afternoon for his home in exile in northern India...
...other writers lapse into a bland, shopping list prose style which may be suitable for album liner notes but waxes tedious after 30 lines. Even Nat Hentoff, a normally fine writer, gets bogged down by his habit of quoting extensively from the artists themselves. A few anecdotes are enough to establish the parallel between Lester Young's personal eccentricities and the relaxed intensity of his playing--the rest add only bulk...
...makers of these low-slung models report substantial backlogs, with customers on a waiting list of up to 20 months. Maserati could double its production rate of two cars a day and still not fulfill all its orders. This year Aston Martin will sell 320 models (vs. 287 in 1978) and increase production next June from six cars a week to seven...