Word: nights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tired but thrilled, Bernstein wanted to spend a night in Turkey listening to the folk music he finds "deep, rich, untouched." But he had played so long himself that no cabaret was still open, and he settled for a Turkish meal of goat cheese, pilaf and kuzu firin (roast lamb). Too soon, it was time to head for the airport and a performance in Salonika, Greece. Among the concerts still ahead on the Philharmonic's world tour: 18 in Russia, five in Poland and Yugoslavia. By the time it returns in October, the Philharmonic will have seen ten weeks...
...Example: Little Rock's recently closed private Raney High School (TIME, Aug. 17), which offered less than 25% as many courses to its segregationist students as did the public Central High School, had no music, art, general mathematics or foreign languages. Nor would a wave of fly-by-night tuition-grant schools (most unaccredited) be subject to responsible supervision; fanatics and crackpots could easily control budgets and so set the curriculum, plunging Southern education to new depths...
...Francisco's Willie Lee McCovey, 21, a big, leggy (6 ft. 4 in., 200 Ibs.) Negro first baseman, was so excited last month when he was called up from Phoenix that he stayed up all night to make sure he made his plane, never did get around to packing all his clothes. But at the plate for San Francisco, Willie is as cool as his bat is hot: in his first seven games, he hit three home runs, scored nine runs, drove in nine more, and batted .467, as the Giants won six to stay in first place...
...numerous drunken-driving accidents, Dennis' paternity suit), but do not think that Bing has set a much better example. Not one of his sons expressed much sorrow that their father had chosen to go fishing out in the Pacific rather than turn up for the opening of their night club act in Las Vegas...
Texas, piled up a modest fortune-and lost all but $29.30 in the 1929 market crash. (He and his wife spent what was left on a night...