Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fair banks fair. Visitors (300,000 anticipated) can either tour a gold-painted geodesic dome meant to symbolize a nugget, or else pan gold themselves, sourdough-fashion, in chutes from the Chena River; sip cocktails in the "Wheelhouse," a VIP lounge on the superstructure of the old Alaskan stern-wheeler Nenana; view an aboriginal village with Eskimo kayak rides and a Tlingit totem-pole carver at work; or ogle the cancan dancers from an authentic gold-rush...
Zuckerman, a friendly, flop-haired bear of a boy ("Everybody calls me Pinky"), started studying at seven with his violinist father. In 1961, Isaac Stern and Pablo Casals heard him play at the Tel Aviv Conservatory and immediately cleared the way for him to go to New York. In the finals, he says, "I lost my cool. My fingers got all tangled up. It taught me how much I could produce under tension, but I sure hope it never happens again." At a victory celebration, he broke down and cried...
Such grooming, combined with care ful selection, has paid off. H.I., which depends on word-of-mouth advertising, is swamped with requests from businessmen and corporations. The London Dai ly hostesses," Telegraph the has German called them magazine Stern "mostest referred to them as der scharmanteste Kundendienst der Welt. And San Francisco Economic Consultant Baldhard G. Falk wrote back that his hostess was "not only an exceptionally charming person of impeccable taste. Most surprisingly, she happens to be the first lady driver with whom I was not afraid, and this means a lot, considering Paris traffic...
...race day, a stiff 22-knot wind built up 6-ft. to 10-ft. waves. But out they went, 63 of the fastest, most expensive outboards, inboards, diesels and stern drives ever assembled on one patch of water. Bill Petty's Pussy Cat, a 23-ft., 550-h.p. Sportsman worth $20,000, was barely clear of the harbor when it caught fire and burned to the water line. Minutes later, Bill Lewis' 40-ft. Formula came apart and sank. Only 32 boats reached the initial checkpoint at Bimini; of these, twelve never reached Nassau...
...city hall, and Takamatsu's new gymnasium (see color). For the latter. Architect Tange called on his childhood memories of Japan's traditional, majestic wooden barges ("Takamatsu, after all, is a city by the sea"). Building it, with its cable-suspended roof and abutment-supported "bow" and "stern," proved a contractor's nightmare. Whenever the gripes seemed insurmountable, Kaneko cheerfully exhorted the workmen to "show us your patriotism, for this is a work Japan will be proud...