Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign, and retired shortly after 10 p.m. Her twin sister Sharon was in another room. Another of Percy's daughters, Gail, 13, was asleep; his sons, Roger, 19, and Mark, 11, were away. Percy and his wife Loraine looked at a late TV show, went to their master bedroom, and turned out the light at about...
...followed the sound down the hallway to Valerie's room. Inside, she saw a shadowy figure bent over Valerie's bed. The intruder instantly straightened up, whirled about and transfixed Loraine Percy in the blinding glare of a powerful flashlight. Screaming, she ran back to the master bedroom, where she punched a wall button that set off a rooftop burglar-alarm siren...
Handy's discipline derives from his classical training at San Francisco State College, where he is a few credits shy of a master's degree in music education. When he first unlimbered on the jazz circuit in 1958, he was a timid conformist, but a nine-month tour with Charlie Mingus' combo changed that. Midway in a number, the burly, quick-tempered Mingus would peer fearsomely from behind his bass and roar, "Go on, go on, blow something!" Recalls Handy: "I was too scared not to play something startling...
...With those words, the Windy City became the recipient of one of the most magnificent windfalls in its history: Picasso's $100,-000 design for a 50-ft. sculpture to stand in front of the city's new $87 million civic center. Also without charge, the Spanish master-who will turn 85 next month-threw in his original 42-in. maquette for the Chicago Art Institute...
Like all Gemini missions before it, last week's flight of Gemini 11 was a carefully planned practice session de signed to teach U.S. spacemen as much as possible about the techniques they must master and the troubles they must overcome before landing men on the moon and returning them safely to earth. The practice paid off handsome ly. From its improbably precise launch, made within a tiny, two-second "win dow" of time, to its all-but-perfect splashdown 21 miles from the recovery carrier Guam, Gemini 11 proved to be an able instructor indeed...