Word: nine
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the funeral over, Rome entered the nine-day mourning period, or novendiali, and the assembled Cardinals continued with daily meetings to prepare for the Oct. 14 conclave. This time most of the housekeeping details had a strong air of déjà vu about them. But there were some new problems...
...third the operating cost of comparable Japanese equipment. So far Hume has found no takers. DuPont's Lind joined the tour only because DuPont last year managed to push through import approval for its new blood analyzers in the remarkably short period of four months (vs. the usual nine to 18 months waiting time); DuPont has already sold 20 of the devices at $150,000 each to the nationalized hospitals. Lind hoped to line up appointments with government decision makers who could give the go-ahead for further purchases. After a number of appointments, he was hopeful the Japanese...
Monteverdi's Contemporaries (The Early Music Consort of London, David Mun-row, conductor; Angel). A fascinating col lection of sacred and profane music by nine little-known Italian composers of the 16th and early 17th centuries, performed on such authentic instruments as sackbut, recorder and shawm. As usual with the Consort, the playing (and in the mot ets, singing) is of the highest quality...
...Village Voice, and began remaking the Post according to his own tabloid tastes. Last week the publishers had even less reason to love Murdoch. In a move variously regarded as daring, cynical and even brilliant, the Australian broke ranks with his fellow publishers and made a separate peace with nine striking unions. His Post thus became the first major New York newspaper to hit the streets since it, the Daily News and the Times were struck almost nine weeks...
There has been a vacancy on the Supreme Court and the Justices are distinctly disconcerted to learn that the President has appointed the first woman ever to become one of the august nine. One Justice, Dan Snow (Henry Fonda), is apoplectic. He is a cantankerous, mountain-climbing liberal maverick not too cunningly modeled on William O. Douglas. He is called "the great dissenter," a rather slippery attempt by Co-Playwrights Lawrence and Lee to shift a characterization that belongs uniquely and unalterably to Oliver Wendell Holmes. The new appointee, Ruth Loomis (Jane Alexander), is a rabid conservative hatched in Orange...