Word: solids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FRIEDRICH GULDA: INEFFABLE (Columbia). One of the few artists with a solid reputation in both classical and jazz piano, Gulda's second solo jazz record is freer and subtler than his first, but his strength is still dazzling technique. Although Gulda plays as though solving a network of complementary equations, cerebral jazz buffs will find this a rare, stimulating exercise...
Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, chairman of the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee: "Within the Senate, there is solid support for standing firm in Viet Nam. Within the group, there are a great many regrets that we are in there. But we are in there. Our flag is committed. Our boys are committed. We've got to back them up. We would invite much more serious trouble elsewhere in Asia and throughout the world if we set a precedent in being pushed out. I regret that we got in there. And I regret the extent to which we have become committed-particularly...
Main reason, of course, is his popularity with the huge mass of voters less interested in political brilliance than in having a solid man at the helm. What is more, Erhard is the man in the middle of three middle-of-the-road parties, and ideally situated to form a coalition with either of the other two in the likely event that the Christian Democrats once again fail to win an absolute majority...
...baseball's most cynical observers. Despite the Twins' casualty list, Las Vegas bookmakers have refused to change the odds. The Minnesota club is a solid 3-to-5 favorite to win the American League pennant...
...they know they have studied Venus and not its veil? Dr. Barry Clark of the National Radio Observatory at Green Bank, W.Va., and Dr. Arkady Kuzmin of Moscow's Lebedev Institute of Physics explained that the thermal radiations they observed from Venus seemed to come from a solid surface. Moreover, Caltech's two big-dish antennas found the planet's actual diameter to be less than the 7,655-mile span that is observed optically. As a result, the astronomers assume that they have measured the planet itself and that the dense cloud covering is at least...