Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BOAC's flight 911 had taken off in perfect weather twelve minutes before the disaster from Tokyo International and had climbed to 6,000 feet. The passengers were probably peering out the starboard windows for a glimpse of the mountain. Among them were 75 dealers and executives with their wives from Minneapolis' Thermo King Corp., on a 14-day company-paid tour of the Far East, a reward for outstanding sales. Suddenly witnesses on the ground saw the plane belch white, then black, smoke. To some it seemed to come apart in midair, pieces of wing and tail...
...radar-directed approach was perfect until he was only a few hundred yards short of the runway. Then the control-tower radar scanner saw in horror that the huge DC-8 suddenly had sunk twenty feet below the correct glide path. "Level off," commanded the tower operator. Seconds later, the plane dropped off the radar screen. Too low, the plane's wheels apparently snagged on the breakwater at the edge of the runway, sending the DC-8 cartwheeling down the field...
...such admiration would normally lead to overcritical judgment of interpretation. So you can believe me when I say that the HRO's performance was perfect. There were no detectable wrong notes, or questionable tonalities, or muffed passages. Yannatos's command of his orchestra's dynamics was admirable. The large entrances of the brass choir were thrilling. The trumpets handled a speedy passage with facile precision. And, of course, Daphnis et Chloe gave the HRO an opportunity to show off its unsurpassable solo flutist, Karen Monson...
...Party, which is expected to unite behind its own bitter-end segregationist, Freshman Representative James Martin, 47. Martin, who entered politics in 1962, came within 6,800 votes of winning Veteran Lister Hill's U.S. Senate seat in that year by campaigning on the integration issue and his "perfect 13-year attendance record" at Kiwanis Club meetings. This experience could be a powerful arguing point if Martin runs against Lurleen...
Movie moguls have long sought the perfect pop-art hero, the infallible magnetic moneymaker with equal pull for kids under twelve and adolescents up to and beyond retirement age. Tarzan, a perennial favorite, still takes to the trees occasionally to fight for right, but with obsolete weapons. The Wild West gunfighter endures, though an hombre who traditionally hates kissin' and gets his kicks by digging spurs into horseflesh seems equally ill-adapted to the times. The exquisitely contemporary hero is girl-happy, gadget-minded James Bond, whose legend has already tempted a host of imitators to bland larceny...