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...were attributed to yaw (the fifth fatal 707 crash, of a Sabena Airlines plane in Belgium, killed 73 people last year, and has never been explained). But all of the four crashes occurred on training flights, when the Boeing 707 was deliberately put through a series of the most strenuous tests. Recently, the tendency to yaw has been minimized by tailfin improvements...
Shortly before the summer, the group will hold a strenuous four-day researsal period. Although plans are not yet final, several Faculty members have expressed a willingness to lead informal seminars on Mexican history, customs, and institutions sometime during the coming semester...
...nuclear arms. To make matters worse, Kennedy and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer had never achieved any particular personal understanding. On a visit to Washington last April, the Chancellor appeared unsure of the new President, talked largely in guarded generalities about U.S.-German problems. But last week, during a three-day strenuous trip to Washington, most of the U.S.-German conflicts were resolved...
With my apologies to the judges, I must say that I preferred Miss Rochlin's blue-toned nude (in Briggs) to the winning canvas. It is here that she achieves her greatest compositional balance and subtlety of color. The nude reclines, her head and right elbow tossed back, and strenuous shading carries the consequent tension most effectively throughout the body...
While the Kirov has no Ulanova, it boasts half a dozen ballerinas who can bring off such strenuous lead roles with supple ease. But conscious of its role as the defender of 19th century classical tradition, the company plays down its stars to emphasize its superb corps de ballet, whose girls rival the Rockettes in beauty as well as precision...