Word: silver
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...night last week the black buses rolled into Tan Son Nhut. Every half-hour the silver C-141 Starlifters and C-130 Hercules transports of the U.S. Air Force flew out another 100 or so Americans, their Vietnamese dependents and other Vietnamese whose lives might be endangered by the imminent Communist takeover of South Viet Nam. Before the week was out, some 30,000 refugees had been deposited in diverse havens (see following story). These included a tent city at U.S.-controlled Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines; a tin city of corrugated-roof barracks in Guam, once used...
Arthur Nehman Silver Spring...
...especially conducive to perfectly calibrated tones; the oldtimers did not plant their feet squarely at stage center for nothing. A few of Sills' high notes were thin or flat. Most, however, were right on target, and her voice still carries with it a magical image of shimmering silver and gold...
...outdone, the Museum of Fine Arts, when it isn't looking for missing paintings, is opening tomorrow a show on Paul Revere's Boston. The MFA has one of the finest collections of early American furniture and silver in the world, so the show should be pretty special. My sources in the Museum tell me that the MFA is pushing the Bicentennial big this year, because in 1976 most of their early American collection is going to be on loan to other museums for their bicentennial shows...
Stanley Clarke (Nemperor; $6.98). Clarke, 23, can play anything from a soft-shoe acoustic bass to taut Spanish classic strings to a wailing electric bass. His background includes classical bass studies and ensemble playing with Stan Getz, Art Blakey and Horace Silver. Imaginative stick work by Drummer Tony Williams provides an effective foil for Clarke over much of his first...