Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rosen got on the trail among the Mabaan, a primitive tribe in a remote part of the southeast Sudan who eat practically no meat or saturated fat and have low cholesterol and blood-pressure levels even in their 70s. They are a quiet people, but that alone did not explain why their hearing is amazingly sharp, especially for frequencies as high as 12,000 cycles per second-about the upper limit for an adult Western man. Equally significant, said Dr. Rosen, the Mabaan have no pronounced hearing loss at 4,000 c.p.s., which is particularly associated with loss of elasticity...
...lines always clear-all of which supports the singers and frees them to pour their strength into vocal characterization. In the seven years since her first recording of the role, Birgit Nilsson has deepened her Isolde; her vocal performance, from the brilliant high C's to the oboelike low A's, is matchless. Wolfgang Windgassen excels as Tristan, particularly in the third act when his ravings take on a pathetic humanity. For those who care only about Isolde, Kirsten Flagstad's burnished, womanly performance (London) is still best; for Wagner's total creation, Bohm and Bayreuth...
...prospects for cooperation between Washington and Moscow have dimmed perceptibly since their hot-line harmony of two weeks ago. The Russians, having lost the better part of their $2 billion, decade-long military investment in the Moslem world, also saw their prestige plummet to an all-time low among the Arab states (see THE WORLD). Determined to recoup their psychological loss at least, Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin and his colleagues at this week's emergency meeting of the U.N. General Assembly faced the difficult task of inveighing against a fait accompli-Israel's shattering territorial gains. Backed into...
...Third Symphony at the 1902 Krefeld Festival in Germany, one reviewer concluded that "the composer should be shot." The first Vienna performance of Mahler's Fourth drove the audience to such fury that fistfights broke out all over the concert hall. Conductor Hans von Bülow refused to perform Mahler's works because they were "much too strange." In the face of such hostility, Mahler remained stoic. "My time will come," he predicted...
...their part, U.S. manufacturers are eager for the 1968 model-year changeover. Because of the recent sales upturn, the number of new cars remaining in showrooms should be at a manageable level when 1967-model production ends this summer. Indeed, so low have inventories shrunk already -Oldsmobile's F-85, for example, now has only a 28-day supply-that Detroit actually anticipates a newer, more pleasant headache. Even before 1968 models come out, manufacturers may actually run out of some 1967 models...