Word: staging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days after Lyndon Johnson ended all U.S. bombing of North Viet Nam. In it, he is likely to propose new action. If the present battlefield lull continues, Nixon may announce a suspension of the daily B-52 raids, already reduced. He will probably go ahead with a third stage of troop withdrawals, perhaps raising the total cutback for this year to the nice round figure of 100,000. The annual truce season of Christmas, New Year's and Tet is approaching; Nixon might offer a more extensive truce than has been customary, which, in effect, would be backing into...
...moves faster?by increasing troop withdrawals, for instance, and putting forward a firmer schedule ?he may well get renewed backing from the large moderate center of M-day supporters. Most of them did not criticize his peace efforts with much vehemence until August, when he delayed the second stage of troop pullbacks...
Last week the Canadian government bowed to pressure and banned the killing of month-old seal pups in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The new policy means that the killing will now be restricted to seals over a month old. After one month the pups reach the "beater" stage, when they turn from white to brown and, leaving their ice floes, "beat" their way north to the Arctic. Hunters may use guns or arrows but may no longer club seals of any age to death...
...began by dropping the baton. He followed that gaffe by indicating one tempo with his hands while calling for another. Still, the musicians did not seem to mind, as the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra staggered through Brahms' Third Symphony. "I have never in all my years on the concert stage conducted an orchestra," Artur Rubinstein had confided to the concertmaster. "I have dreamed of it since I was a little boy. You will think me a fool, but would the orchestra permit me to conduct a rehearsal?" The orchestra was only too happy, and the great pianist, 80, was delighted...
During 32 hours on the moon, Conrad and Bean will take two strolls, each lasting 3½ to 4 hrs., gather about 130 lbs. of lunar rocks, and stage several scientific experiments. In addition to such familiar activities as measuring bombardment of the moon by solar particles and setting up another seismometer to detect lunar rumbling, the astronauts will leave behind three sophisticated instruments: 1) a magnetometer to take readings of the moon's weak, though detectable magnetic field that may tip off scientists to the moon's internal structure; 2) an ion detector capable of determining...