Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...produce a panoramic Nativity scene for display during the Christmas season. Girard has assembled 200 Mexican figures which would originally have served as background in Nativity scenes, into one tableau. It portrays the busy market that thrives in any village on a fiesta day. To add a contemporary note, he even introduced camera-toting Yanquis into one Peruvian market-scene miniature...
DIONNE WARWICK: VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (Scepter). To some ears, Dionne is too "bleached," or white-sounding, to be a soul singer; but the best of her exceptional ways with a note are strictly soul-derived. Though Do You Know the Way to San Jose? is a sleekly "white", and delightful, song, others, such as Let Me Be Lonely, pay their dues to rhythm & blues. Both songs, along with several others on the album, were written by Burt Bacharach, one of the more able and sophisticated composers in the business...
...hand, their release of 214 Americans for combat would invite a propaganda cudgeling from China, ever eager to berate Moscow for betraying its allies in Hanoi. In the end, both sides displayed an encouragingly sophisticated, fresh approach to defusing the danger. Next day, Thompson was handed a curt protest note. Just as curtly, the U.S. apologized and Flight 253A was set free, reaching Japan with a planeload of grubby, bearded troopers bound for Cam Ranh Bay in Viet...
Rulon was an enthusiastic aviator, who held a commercial pilot's license. He was also interested in boats and motorcycles. A faculty note at the time of his retirement said: "The picture of Rulon astride his crimson motorcycle with a cigarette holder clenched in teeth and a homburg perched on his head is a legend among the inhabitants of Harvard Square...
Boxing Lessons. That is the only struggle of note that Pierre Trudeau has experienced. He grew up in the affluent Montreal suburb of Outrement, the son of a self-made millionaire whose empire included an auto-breakdown service and a chain of gas stations. (Today, the family fortune is estimated at $7,000,000.) Young Pierre was driven to school by a chauffeur, as a boy was given private boxing lessons "because I was quite a puny child." Trudeau's father died when he was 14, and the loss saddened him for years. He went to a Jesuit college...