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Massachusetts is the sixteenth state to vote equal rights provisions into...
...performance conveyed this bubbling yet mildly pained mood; Paula Robison on flute, especially, gave linear definition by her subtle stress on the downbeat in sixteenth-note passages. The first violins tended to chop off an upbeat eight notes aftera similar stress on the downbeats (a not uncommon failing)--but the total balance was excellent, and had the drive of authentic Baroque spirit...
...assets (about $600 million before taxes and executor's fees) to the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, his tax-free research foundation. One-eighth was to be divided among Houston's Rice University and the Universities of Texas, Nevada and California. Eight different groups of beneficiaries got one-sixteenth shares (about $150 million each): the Mormon church; William Lummis, a cousin in Houston; and a man named Melvin Dummar, who leases a gas station in Willard, Utah. Hughes' former wives (Ella Rice and Jean Peters) were to divide a one-sixteenth share. Aside from bequests...
...American, German and Swiss capital drawn by the stability of our currency." The "I" of the book, a secretary of Fanfani (the former head of the Christian Democrat party) who decides to write the history of the "compromise" finds it "impossible to view with indifference the achievement of a sixteenth subway line, which, together with eleven elevated highways and twelve helicopter pads, has finally brought fluidity to the traffic of our metropolis." Some miracle has cleary occurred, by the time this "chronicle of the next Italy" is written, in the year 2000 and in the Italy of the "Second Republic...
...yard sixteenth, McNealy pulled out a three wood for his second shot but still didn't have enough stick to reach the uphill par four facing into the wind. The sixteenth also exacted a double bogey from Vik, who drove his tee shot into the woods. Vik came right back, flipping a pitch shot that slithered to within one foot of the pin. He flubbed the rushed putt and had to settle...