Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vigil's End. In the withering preliminary rounds, the first to be weeded out were the conductors who, like a child walking a Great Dane, were unable to hold a tight rein on the Orchestra of America. In the semifinals, which none of a ten-man U.S. contingent was able to reach, the remaining 13 candidates were put through a musical obstacle course: they had to conduct the first movement of Berlioz' Symphonic Fantastique, Debussy's First Rhapsody for clarinet and piano, a recitative and aria from Beethoven's Fidelio, and a surprise modern piece-Andre...
...Harvard freshmen knocked off the junior varsity 6 to 4 at Watson Rink Saturday, but the game was not as tight as the score indicates. The freshmen played some sophisticated, impressive hockey and controlled the action for most of the game. The junior varsity played roughly, with a good deal of checking in the offensive zone which the officials chose to overlook...
...bright enough to fight. Now Colonel Everette Stephenson, director of Selective Service in Kentucky, will "more than likely" summon Clay for another round of brain crushers. Meantime the champ won another kind of split decision. He got a Miami divorce from his wife Sonji because her slacks were too tight and her makeup too much for his Muslim eye, but was ordered to pay $1,200 a month in alimony for ten years and $22,500 in lawyers' fees. All of which added point to Cassius' remark: "I just said I was the greatest, not the smartest...
wasawa's foil contributed half of Harvard's score by edging Bob Klein, 5-4; John McKay, 5-4; and Dave Nichtern, 5-2. Harvard senior Tom Musliner also downed Nichtern, 5-2. In epee, the Crimson's only win was Brian Keidan's tight 5-4 decision over Marty Saltzman...
...Neither Tight nor Easy. That prescription seems to fit Duesenberry's personal inclinations, too. Though he is highly regarded as an authority on monetary policy, Duesenberry insists that he cannot be classified as an advocate of either tight or easy money. His appointment to the $27,000-a-year post, effective Feb. 1, will not change the council's Keynesian flavor. As a council consultant since 1961, he has been among the handful of experts who helped create the framework for the New Economics and work out methods for putting it into operation...