Word: succession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since then, Barbirolli's steady success has become uncomfortable history to his old critics. In darkest wartime he took over Manchester's draft-shattered Halle Orchestra, built it from 23 demoralized players into one of the smoothest groups in the world. The Halle played close to the front lines during the Battle of the Bulge, has toured incessantly since, giving a staggering 250 concerts a year...
...zone of Berlin. The cover of the contraband Tarantel (tarantula) proclaims that it is "priceless," but for East Germans caught chuckling over the magazine's sledgehammer humor, the price can be a term in a Red prison. Despite its problems of distribution and retribution, Tarantel is a big success among East Germans. Reason: the butt of humor for Tarantel is East Germany's Communist government...
Rupp's success at Kentucky is traceable to indefatigable recruiting, and a merciless concentration on perfection of fundamentals. Admits the Baron: "Of course, we get good boys here at Kentucky. Every boy in the state, from the time he's born, lives for the day he can play at the university." Once Rupp gets his players, he drills them endlessly and without letup. They live together in the same dormitory, eat a special diet. Practices are conducted in semi-silence, save for an occasional tongue-lashing directed by Rupp at a player who is not giving...
...George and St. Sebastian. After painstaking studies of prestidigitation and stage music, Rio's Marist Brothers put on a series of public shows during the past year to duplicate the tricks by which the spiritist babalaôs hoodwink the gullible. Such sound showmanship has had some success...
Degrees of Success. Since the Russians do not call their shots before they fire, Lunik may have been designed for several degrees of success. The most difficult would be to go into orbit around the moon, as the U.S. Air Force hoped to do with Pioneer I. But this stunt requires a small rocket to nudge the final stage into capture by the moon's gravitational field, and the Russians have not mentioned any such item. Next degree of success would be to pass around the moon and return to earth. If the Russians were trying to do this...