Word: soundness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the Soviet Tu-144 became the first civilian aircraft to break the sonic barrier in 1969, the Anglo-French Concorde soon shot several sound-years ahead of its Russian rival with the inauguration of regular transatlantic passenger service in 1976. Last week the Soviet Union belatedly entered the supersonic sweepstakes by initiating regular Tu-144 flights on a little-traveled run between Moscow and Alma-Ata, an industrial city of 860,000 near the Chinese border. Price of a one-way ticket on the once-a-week flight: $113. TIME Moscow Bureau Chief Marsh Clark was the first Western...
Passengers were startled by the extreme angle of ascent, which threatened to dump all their hand baggage into the rear toilet. But within 15 minutes the Concordski was level and cruising comfortably ten miles above ground, racing at twice the speed of sound toward Alma-Ata, 1,931 miles away...
...comely stewardesses-Zoya, Lyuba and Ira-who distributed copies of the latest Pravda and served a distinctly unproletarian meal of smoked salmon, red and black caviar, roast beef and white wine from the Crimea. The only inflight problem was noise. Conversation was rendered almost impossible by a loud rushing sound that made the flight seem as though it were taking place in a wind tunnel. Alexei Tupolev, the plane's designer, who was aboard the inaugural run, explained that the noise came from a supercharged ventilation system designed to keep passengers cool despite the above-boiling temperatures...
...Lebert for a small band that played for dances in London, Ont. After a so-so success, they were invited to play at an Elks' convention in Cleveland and stayed on in the U.S. Billed as Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians, the group developed a smoothly distinctive sound that was heard coast to coast on radio, sold over 100 million records and introduced some 600 hits including Boo-Hoo and Little White Lies. Cheerfully ignoring critics who called his music 'corny," Lombardo survived as the last great dance-band leader. His New Year's Eve concerts...
...case the practice seems to have developed during a brilliant career on the legitimate stages of Broadway and London's West End. For Levine it seems to be a case of wanting to bring the singers closer to both the audience and his own podium. They do sound forth more gloriously, as 19th century operatic idols knew. But given the virtually endless depths of the Met stage, the approach seems not only nearsighted but also perverse and, in the end, dated...