Word: silents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dixy Lee Ray, Sc.D., Assistant Secretary of State. Not one to be awed into silent inactivity by the promises of pure technology, she has dealt with the implications of science with a calm logic and with consistent attention to its human role...
...Washington) of a Cambodian gunboat. It fired machine gun bullets and a rocket across the freighter's bow and forced her to stop. Radio Operator Wilbert Bock got off a last distress call. Then the Cambodians apparently located the radio shack and the radio fell silent. But the last message was picked up in Indonesia by agents of the ship's owner and relayed to the State Department in Washington...
...Reuss (D-Wisc.), called for "the application of existing facets of the law of war to some of the hellishness that has been brought to our attention in Vietnam"--in effect, a call for some sort of war crimes proceedings. Since the war has ended, Reuss has remained silent on the subject of war crimes, and he will probably follow the lead of his colleagues on Capitol Hill in letting the matter rest...
...Allenwood's better-known prisoners is Cornelius Gallagher, a former New Jersey congressman with Mafia connections. Gallagher and Magruder became tennis partners (Allenwood has tennis courts) until Gallagher discovered that Magruder's task was to find out from him whether Rodino had any skeletons in his closet. Gallagher remained silent, although he realized subsequently that he was going to do maximum time unless he would give Magruder some dirt on Rodino. But there simply wasn...
Cecil Taylor's Silent Tongues stands out from the previous three records both because of its format (solo piano) and its recording date (it was recorded at last year's Montreux festival). The album provides a fair sample of what '60s avant-garde music is doing in the '70s as well as how a difference in format necessitates a difference in approach...