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...were under no obligation to listen to the strings. In spite of difficulty in the high register, the upper strings produced a rich sound when they decided to play together as a section. But in their big moment, at the beginning of the third movement, the 'cellos didn't soar--they wilted...
YOUNGER THAN YESTERDAY (Columbia). The Byrds first took wing as interpreters of Bob Dylan and on their fourth album soar highest with one of Dylan's old songs, My Back Pages. Where Dylan himself sang the disillusioned sermon like a harsh and nasal backwoods evangelist, the Byrds weave it into a more mellifluous and harmonic song. They also chirp sweetly about what seem to be LSDelightful reveries (Mind Gardens, Renaissance Fair...
...will triple?from more than 41 million in 1966 to 139 million. During the same interval, the annual number of flights by instrument rules will grow from 5.2 million to 12.4 million. The number of U.S. commercial airliners will increase from 2,124 to 3,500. Airline business will soar from 114 million passengers and 76 billion passenger-miles in 1966 to 352 million passengers and 266 billion passenger-miles in 1977. The general aviation fleet of business and pleasure craft will increase from...
After trying his hand at a number of jobs, he finally hired on with Lockheed in 1939 as a $275-a-month production specialist. Lockheed has since come to soar, and so has Dan Haughton. He became Lockheed's executive vice president in 1956, rose to president in 1961, last week was named to succeed Courtlandt S. Gross as chairman of the board...
Even as they slog through the lave pits of childhood and adolescence, most youths are forming some vision of what shape the cooled adult crust will take, how high the peaks will soar. For their models, they look to their fathers, older brothers, a teacher, a figure plunked from history-an Alexander or a Gehrig, a Shaw or a Morgan, a Renoir or a Luciano. for Raoul Levy, born of a Russian-Jewish family in Antwerp, educated there and at the London School of Economics, an R.A.F. veteran of World War II, there never seems to have been much doubt...