Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coat made from $30,000 worth of rare skins given her by the Somali government when she was First Lady. Last month the generous Somalis presented a similar token of their esteem to Muriel Humphrey, 55, during her African jaunt with the Vice President. Alas! The intervening years have seen the passage of a law prohibiting Government officials from accepting any gift of more than "minimal value," and Muriel had to turn the furs over to the State Department. There is a possibility, said State, that Humphrey might be allowed to carpet his office in leopard, but the skins...
...reverse turn) and flying splits. Then he went off with something he calls "the Bourkey"-an astonishing leap in which he kicks sideways, twirls, arches and floats as if suspended by wires. He decided against his "triple-flip" turn because of a pulled leg muscle. But the judges had seen enough; they gave him five 5.9s and one 6, good for third place and a slot on the U.S. Olympic team. At Grenoble, says Petkevich, "that triple flip goes back...
...time or another, the Post Office Department has seen fit to immortalize five Chief Justices of the Supreme Court: John Jay, John Marshall, Harlan F. Stone, William Howard Taft and Charles Evans Hughes. Now the P.O. has decided to honor some Associate Justices who were every bit as great as their chiefs. First on the list: Oliver Wendell Holmes, who died in 1935 at the age of 93. Come March, his wise and bearded visage will look out from a new 15? stamp...
...denounced in 1948 for his "bourgeois formalism") Khachaturian's large-scale compositions move ahead through a heady emotionalism, some of it inspired by the wailing, chantlike folk music of his native Armenia. The 20 years that separate the Symphony No. 2 from the Concerto-Rhapsody have seen some broadening of Soviet musical culture-the works of Bartok, Stravinsky and even Boulez have breached the curtain-but Khachaturian's style has deepened little...
Electrically charged SSTs would actually provide a visual dividend. Ionization of the air in front of the planes would produce a corona discharge that would be seen as a bright blue glow in the dark. "When supersonic traffic gets heavy," says Cahn, "this could provide observers on the ground with a spectacular view at night...