Word: pitches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...October 1959, when the Mirror underwent a thorough revamping and made a brassy new pitch to British youth, Chairman Cecil Harmsworth King decided to pension Jane off. "You can't go on being a bright young thing forever," said King, although Jane had made a good start at doing just that. First unveiled-or rather, undraped-on the Mirror's pages in December 1932, at the age of 21, she vanished 27 years later at the same age. "Let's quietly disappear and start again together," said Jane's perennial fiance, Georgie, in the farewell strip...
...Rhythm & Pitch. Ernst Krenek's atonal Santa Fe Time Table was in itself enough to put a tremolo in the larynx of most singers. A long, desert-dry work, its lyrics is a list of all the station names between Albuquerque and Los Angeles* The chorus rattled down the right-of-way like a highballing freight, then proceeded to an even more formidable test: Schonberg's late works, Dreimal...
People to People. Che even managed to have a talk with U.S. Presidential Adviser Richard Goodwin, 30, in Montevideo. With Cuba's economic plight growing daily more desperate (see below), Che's entire pitch at the conference was his desire for coexistence. According to reports, he sent Goodwin a box of Havana cigars with a note: "As writing to an enemy is difficult-and I am not good at writing-I hereby extend my hand." The two finally got together at a birthday open-house party at the apartment of a Brazilian diplomat named Gerson Augusto da Silva...
...Ulbricht's meticulous Communist planning. Even as the open street crossings were being barricaded, other squads raced to lock the gates of the S-bahn (elevated) and of the ten major U-bahn (subway) stations that serviced trains traveling into West Berlin. Guards were posted in the pitch-dark U-bahn tunnels to halt the more imaginative sneakers. After a helmeted Vopo guard at the new barrier leaped across the barbed wire and escaped to the West, East German officers began keeping their enlisted men several yards from the wire to prevent more defections. Toughest task...
Delegates to the Alliance for Progress conference in Punta del Este fell silent as bearded Che Guevara, the Kremlin's best friend in Cuba, stood up to deliver his final pitch. "Cuba's delegation has asked again and again and never has received an answer whether Cuba has the right to participate in the Alliance for Progress," said Che smoothly. "Cuba's socioeconomic system may be different from the rest of the nations of this continent, but Cuba nevertheless is part of the whole. The first mark of coexistence is the peaceful recognition of the system...