Word: run
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Semantic Gimmick. Conductors Mehta and Leinsdorf believe that the disadvantages of high labor costs and long seasons can in the long run be turned into assets. Mehta thinks that the eventual answer will be an orchestra in every major American city that will serve several musical purposes. "The only way seasons can be enlarged indefinitely is by giving symphony and opera," says Mehta, "then breaking up the orchestra-making chamber-music groups, moving around the countryside, going out to the people." Leinsdorf goes Mehta one better. "The solution is not to make the orchestra smaller but to make it larger...
Nelms is already choosing a planning board to see to it that "none of these parties end after just a few token drinks. I want them to run as long as there's a crowd there to have fun." To house the parties, he recently purchased an office building near downtown Dallas and enough nearby land to provide an adequate parking...
...under the snows of Alaska's North Slope. The biggest new find in the U.S. since the East Texas strike of 1930, the North Slope promises to lessen U.S. dependence on oil from the Middle East. Walter Levy, internationally known oil consultant, estimates the find could run as high as 20 billion barrels, enough to increase U.S. reserves by two-thirds...
Humble Oil's executives, hoping to succeed where Explorer John Cabot failed, announced last week that they are fitting out,the 115,000-ton tanker Manhattan as an icebreaker for a pioneering-and perilous-test run through the long ice-choked Northwest Passage to the Arctic next month. Denver's King Resources Co., wagering that the Manhattan will make it, has drafted plans to build a deep-water port in Maine's Casco Bay. That port is even closer to the North Slope than Seattle is. No Alaskan oil is expected to be delivered...
...run my films like the Boy Scouts," claims Producer-Director Russ Meyer. "I want absolutely no hanky-panky on the set. You can't expect two people who have been balling the night before to turn in a convincing performance the next...