Word: silents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From Memory. Though a silent, pale, frail-looking man, Rostropovich is the iron man of the concert circuit. Periodically, like a compulsive mountain climber, he seems compelled to tackle great chunks of the cello repertory simply because it is there. In eleven concerts in Moscow last winter, he accomplished the unparalleled feat of playing 41 different works, virtually the entire repertory for cello and orchestra, all from memory...
Earlier in the day, an estimated 1000 demonstrators braved the near 90-degree midday heat to keep a half-hour silent vigil in front of the White House. At least one man collapsed under the withering...
...scope of counterrevolutionary effort in his own country. In Las Villas province, 2,005 rebels had been captured or killed since 1961, he said, and in the struggle, 295 soldiers of his "anti-bandit battalions" had been killed. When Castro turned to the economy, the crowd fell silent under some withering criticism from the Maximum Leader. Cubans, cried he, "are going at 25% of their capacity 80% of the time...
...signed up some 30 C.A.T.V. systems. Whether people will continue to watch, once the novelty has worn off, is a matter of speculation. "C.A.T.V. systems are already using channels for nothing but weather reports," says Fred Strozier, A.P. broadcast-membership executive. "If people will sit and look at a silent weather channel, they will certainly look at a news channel...
...supply a "silent" electronic navigation system, Northrop engineers, led by James Campbell, project manager, have borrowed a technique that radio astronomers use to study the sun and the planets. They are tuning in on the faint thermal radio waves that are emitted by every natural body, whether celestial or earthly. At altitudes of less than 1,000 ft., a pair of highly directional antennas pick up that radiation from objects below the plane. And since one antenna points behind the other, it picks up the same radiation at a slightly later time. That time lag, along with the plane...