Word: turn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week at the New York City Opera, it was Beverly Sills' turn. She had a bad cold. Charles Wilson's conducting only occasionally rose to something that resembled authority. Nothing seemed able to shock Tenor Michele Molese and Baritone Dominic Cossa into dramatic vitality. Nevertheless, under the direction of Tito Capobianca, the whole production drew a mounting, cohesive strength from Sills...
...dazzled eyes. The music provided a highly subjective counterpoint: the Beatles' Happiness Is a Warm Gun accompanied battle scenes from Viet Nam; Peter, Paul and Mary's Blowin' in the Wind underscored film clips of student demonstrations. The overall theme was Pete Seeger's Turn, Turn, Turn. The program marked what might possibly be a new pattern for TV news documentaries: except for a final three-minute, 40-second sermon from David Brinkley (in which he credited the entire decade to TV), there were no formula interviews, no ponderous philosophizing. Instead, it was a documentary full...
...colonel, Zalman Shalev, a former head of military communications, founded an electronics company that recorded $1,500,000 in sales last year. Another ex-colonel, Arieh Shachar, took over the money-losing government trucking company called Mifalei Tovala, promising to turn a profit within a year or close down the company. He replaced its ancient fleet of trucks and fired 70% of the headquarters staff, starting at the top "to show the workers that the reforms were just." Shachar also negotiated a new labor contract that increased the drivers' work hours by 15%, with no raise...
...asked if he was going to turn to the United States with his search for something positive. He said that he is working on a movie about campus politics. Anthony Quinn plays a professor who joins the student picket line and is elected president of the university. It's a comedy whose humorous catch is the decision to bust or not to bust...
Under the lottery system, 18-year-olds will have advance notice of their chances of being taken to war once they turn 19. In September a-list-would be drawn up of priority birthdays, men being on the day of highest priority having the most chance of being drafted in January...