Word: mache
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Flying in a sky full of tilim [Hebrew for missiles] is like flying in a sky full of enemy planes. A missile is the same as a plane only it's faster -somewhere between two and three Mach (1,520 m.p.h. to 2,280 m.p.h.). Our problem is to fly and to look in all directions at the same time. They fire a lot of those missiles. You have to choose which you think are most dangerous. First you see clouds of smoke and dust on the ground. In the air, the missile is a relatively long body...
...that Leonard Bernstein conducted Beethoven's Fidelio in Vienna, a son was born to U.S. Soprano Olive Moorefield of Vienna's Volksoper and her husband, Dr. Kurt Mach. "Love and congratulations," Bernstein wired, "for Oliver Kurt Fidelio." The parents were delighted and added Fidelio to the boy's name. "Think of the poor baby's fate," mused an Austrian TV commentator, "if Lenny had conducted Die Meistersinger von Nੜrnberg that evening...
...When the invasion of Czechoslovakia began, the Russians used this "metallic mist" to blind Western radar while Soviet transports swept into Prague airport. The Soviets are working on an anti-satellite that can examine U.S. spies-in-the-sky and knock them down. They are putting into service a Mach 3 twin-finned MIG-23, primarily a bomber killer, and are developing three classes of quieter and faster attack submarines whose mission will be to seek out and destroy submarines. Also under development: a second-generation "coasting" or "loitering" ABM, which would linger in the anticipated flight path...
...Kirchner plane ??rto (conducted by Kirchner and ??med by Luise Vosgerchian), the New England premiere of Gunter Schuller's Five B?? and premieres of some of Dr. yaks works. HRO and the Glee Club would have performed the American premiere of Kurt Weill's Berlin Requiem at the coming mach concert, but discovered that a major symbol my orchestra has the rights to that premiere...
...worth $8 billion. But in the company's California plants, employment has dropped from 71,000 to 56,000, reflecting space cutbacks and dwindling orders for DC-8s and DC-9s. Grumman, despite a contract with a potential value of $5 billion to build the Navy's Mach 2 F-14 fighter plane, expects to lay off 1,200 engineers this year...