Word: trained
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Philip D. Murphy '79, President of Hasty Pudding Theatricals, said that Falk had "a legitimate last-minute committment," filming in either Mexico or Los Angeles, and that DeLaurentiis was in London having "serious production problems" filming "The Great Train Robbery...
...Licia Albanese. Leontyne Price declared that her former mentor is still the "guiding figure" in her career. Also a tough perfectionist. "Just when you think Adler is safely tucked away in his office," she said, "he'll pop out from behind a bush and tell you your train is a foot too long...
...skies may be friendly, and the fares lower, but no jet can compete with the fascination of rolling stock on gleaming rails. With this in mind. Donald Crews has used an artist's airbrush and a designer's eye to link up his unique Freight Train (Greenwillow/Morrow; $6.95). The text is as unadorned as a coal car, but the pictures have a purity and force that Amtrak would do well to emulate...
...California, six Chinese scholars arrived at Stanford University, the first cadre of 700 students and researchers that Peking intends to send to the U.S. within the next twelve months. At the United Nations, China was allowed technical assistance it had requested, worth $10 million to $15 million, to train Chinese in languages and in agricultural and scientific technology. A consortium of West German companies is negotiating a $14 billion deal with Peking to build in Hopei province what would be the world's largest steelmaking complex. Britain's government agreed to negotiate the possible purchase by Peking...
...planetary grand finale will occur in September, when Pioneer 11 reaches Saturn almost five years after its visit to Jupiter. It will pass just outside Saturn's rings, sending back the first closeup pictures of those flat bands of icy debris. During that close encounter, Pioneer will also train its electronic gaze on the huge Saturnine moon, Titan, which has a diameter of some 5,800 km (3,600 miles) and a significant atmosphere, probably consisting of methane, other gases, and organic molecules like those that may have been the precursors of life on earth...