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...Tireless Lips. For all the theatrics, Enrico is that rare individual, a genuine musical prodigy-and on an instrument that demands physical maturity above all else. Many a child can scribble music or peck away at the piano. But an accomplished trumpeter needs a strong, well-developed diaphragm to pump a constant, high-pressure stream of breath into his horn. He needs powerful, tireless lips to shape his embouchure (or his "pucker," as Louis Armstrong liked to call it). Enrico...
...astronauts of Apollo 15, all Air Force officers, have distinguished themselves by their tireless efforts to sharpen their scientific skills. They are widely proclaimed to be the most scientifically knowledgeable crew to travel to the moon...
...trip to the Soviet Union, coupled with her tireless involvement in then radical movements, brought her before a state commission investigating Communism during the McCarthy era. She denounced the commission and refused to testify. "I simply told them that my business was none of their business." In 1962, while attending a disarmament conference in the Soviet Union, she wangled a Chinese visa and visited the mainland...
Mardian's political views place him a few paces to the right of John Mitchell, but the boss joins others in regarding Mardian as a first-rate lawyer and tireless prosecutor. Because Mitchell has shifted dozens of key cases to the revived Internal Security Division, Mardian is already considered the Justice Department's No. 3 man behind Mitchell and Kleindienst. One former colleague sums up: "He's remarkable for the clarity with which he thinks, but he's an absolutely cold-blooded political operator...
...soon decided that the gadgets are dandy exercise machines as well as preparation for an even greater balancing act. "Kids today have to learn that life is full of hard knocks," he says enthusiastically. Besides, the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. donates multicolored tires for the cyclers to test, plus tireless promotion. "You might say," explains Moran, "we've gone cycledelic...