Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first suspicious of him, and the left-of-center opposition, led by Inönü, did its noisiest best to discredit him as a lackey of the U.S. For months the opposition man aged to block every government bill, since Demirel lacked a majority in the upper house of Parliament. Finally, the new Premier undercut Inönü by softening his stand against the East, wooed two independent Senators into his party, and won the full parliamentary majority that he had lacked at the start. Along the way, he also broadened his support among military men, including Turkish...
France. Filmed in the medieval setting of the Cloisters in upper Manhattan...
Arnold Arnstein, 68, is one of music's obscure middlemen-or more accurately, muddlemen: he is a copyist whose job it is to decipher the scribblings of composers. He works in a dingy cubbyhole on Manhattan's upper West Side, surrounded by towering stacks of music and a massive duplicating machine named Ozalid. Together they make a unique team: Arnie singing an aria from La Bohème while bent over a new score, Ozalid humming contentedly and smelling of ammonia. Yet despite the humble trappings, for the past 25 years Arnstein's office has been...
...knew the upper echelons of the Army like the back of his hand, and it was the back of his hand they sometimes got. When General "Hap" Arnold complained that the Air Force was not getting the large share of credit it claimed, Marshall told him pretty sharply to pipe down. Nor was he the man to ease the jolt when it came to jumping talent over seniority, as when Lieut. Colonel Eisenhower was promoted over numberless brigadiers. He kept a "little Black Book" for duds, and stars would never fall on those listed therein...
...minutes into the third period the other captain, second line center Murray Death, passed out from the corner to brother Bob Ferguson (at 21 he is two years younger than Dave and Doug). Bob was unmolested 5 feet in front of Diercks and had no trouble finding the upper left corner...