Word: salmon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remaining tensions were broken by three comely stewardesses-Zoya, Lyuba and Ira-who distributed copies of the latest Pravda and served a distinctly unproletarian meal of smoked salmon, red and black caviar, roast beef and white wine from the Crimea. The only inflight problem was noise. Conversation was rendered almost impossible by a loud rushing sound that made the flight seem as though it were taking place in a wind tunnel. Alexei Tupolev, the plane's designer, who was aboard the inaugural run, explained that the noise came from a supercharged ventilation system designed to keep passengers cool despite...
...must pay U.S. taxes even though he lives abroad). A former pressagent, Condon, 62, boasts average book sales of 1.3 million and has sold five novels (including The Manchurian Candidate) to Hollywood. Currently he is writing political novel No. 12, to be called Death of a Politician. In his salmon pink 19-room mansion in Kilkenny, Condon works on his potboilers seven hours a day, seven days a week for ten weeks at a stretch...
Officials of the museum believe that the camera will open a new dimension in art exhibits, enabling visitors to see far more detail than ever before. Says Larry Salmon, curator of textiles: "We are now able to take the public into that world previously known to art scholars and museum specialists. We can give the public a sense of a work's grandeur as originally perceived by its creators...
While Shinnecock was hosting the championship in 1896, one of its members, 17-year-old Beatrix Hoyt, was competing in her first U.S. Women's Championship. Hoyt, the granddaughter of Salmon P. Chase, who was Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury and a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, won the title three straight times and then "retired" from competition at the age of 20. She never married and became a landscape painter and sculptor of animals...
...quite boogie time. The British rock group Emerson Lake & Palmer had not brought along a full 58-piece symphony orchestra for just another evening of chug-a-chug rock. As Maestro Salmon gave the downbeat, 9,500 fans, many reared on the violent excesses of Alice Cooper and Iggy Pop, got the first sampling of what was in store for them. From 40 huge loudspeaker enclosures suspended from the ceiling came the mighty sounds of Abaddon's Bolero, a work Composer-Pianist Keith Emerson has based on the same Spanish rhythm as the Ravel classic. After a few bars...