Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bernie Adeisberg (two), Rich Friedman (four), Dick Appleby (five), and Brian Davis (six) all won in straight sets...
...York Philharmonic, is at his best in the expansive, triumphal affirmation of the last movement but, in spite of mighty swells of sound, seems a little somnolent in the andante (where Von Karajan, on Deutsche Grammophon, creates a brooding tension). Bernstein has more overall success in the rich tone poem Pohjola's Daughter, about a maiden who sits high on a rainbow preferring, for some reason, to weave rather than be wooed...
Thus ended a frantic, seriocomic science-fiction epic that had strained Washington's relations with Spain, given Soviet propagandists a rich fallout of anti-American gibes, indelibly affected the life and folklore of thousands of Spanish campesinos and, by week's end, allowed the world at large its first peek at an H-bomb...
...luckiest one is U.S. Special Forces Staff Sergeant Barry Sadler. At 25, he has come away from Viet Nam not only with his skin but with a clutch of ballads that have made him famous and rich. His recording of The Ballad of the Green Berets, only three months old, has sold more than 2,000,000 copies, and a subsequently released twelve-tune album has already leaped to the top of the bestselling LP lists. For this, Sergeant Sadler has earned $250,000 so far this year, and the demand for personal appearances is so great that the Army...
...Resource-rich, highly industrialized, welfare-loving Sweden has long enjoyed the highest living standard in Europe. Prices are stiff (76? for a pack of cigarettes, $9 for a fifth of Scotch, $1.50 per Ib. for hamburger), but after 32 years of unbroken and rising prosperity, Sweden's workers have grown so affluent that about all the tiny, obstreperous Communist Party could find to demand in the last election was "two houses for every family." Swedish families already own 375,000 vacation homes and 300,000 pleasure boats, as well as a car for every four persons. Domestic tranquility...