Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...garage for repairs. There, Thompson and his traveling companion were asked to take another taxi that already contained two men, but refused to share the ride. Friends figure that this may have been an abortive kidnap attempt. On the day that Thompson disappeared, a caravan of five cars was seen going up the usually traffic-free road to the highlands and coming down three hours later- right after Jim Thompson vanished...
Still looking up, Surveyor later scored another space-age first, shooting 20 spectacular photographs of a solar eclipse that was unlike any ever before seen by man. Instead of being blotted out by the moon-as it is during solar eclipses seen on earth-the sun was temporarily hidden behind the earth. During the two hours that Surveyor was in the shadow cast by the eclipse, lunar midday temperatures plummeted from...
Other nations were more generous. Biggest single donor was the U.S., with a total display of 52 works. The Soviets sent a consignment of 13 works rarely seen outside Russia, including four from the Hermitage. Canada helped fill the Italian void with Piero di Cosimo's Vulcan and Aeolus, part of a group of ten pieces that modestly included only two native Canadians, Jean-Paul Riopelle and Paul-Émile Borduas. France obliged with 28 pieces, West Germany with twelve, Japan with ten, Britain with 14, The Netherlands with eight. But some of the most striking contributions came...
Ripping Pockets. As seen from the orchestra ranks, Toscanini awesomely lived up to the nicknames he earned as a young student at the Parma Conservatory: "Napoleon" and "il genietto" (the little genius). Many of the musicians quoted by Haggin still quake at the memory of his fierce glare, which took in the whole orchestra but made each player feel that it was focused on him-usually in reproach. And then there were the tantrums. When a piece was not played as Toscanini wanted it, "his irritation used to start at his feet and rise," recalls Bassoonist Sol Schoen-bach...
Whether Sherrill will be a tight-or easy-money governor of the FRB remains to be seen. For the moment, at least, he is determined to stay unfettered by dogmatic stands on Washington's monetary and banking controversies...