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Lalo: Violin Concerto In F (Miriam Solovieff; Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Henry Swoboda conducting; Concert Hall). A fiddler's standby, warmly played by talented U.S. Violinist Solovieff.
Within minutes, in the nation's great steel mills, workers began streaming out of the plants, finally leaving only standby crews on the job to protect the cooling furnaces. By nightfall, the fires were dying in Pittsburgh, Chicago, Youngstown, Gary and wherever the union's organizing hand had...
Parts of the article read like something out of the pages of science fiction. Not only is the secrecy fantastic, but the whole crazy business is fantastic, and I can't bring myself to believe that such monstrous things are really going on. The next logical question would be...
22. Chief casualty of the new law forcing furriers to call furs by their real names is the old standby:
The King, Londoners heard this week, wanted the operation as soon as possible, and it was set for Sept. 22. But careful Price Thomas, who is highly regarded by fellow surgeons for his "good hands," insisted on having emergency (standby) lighting circuits installed in the Buhl Room of Buckingham Palace...