Word: vanguards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HAYDN: THE STURM UND DRANG SYMPHONIES (Vanguard). Haydn was a bit overwrought in the years when he composed these six pivotal symphonies, but one would never know it from these mellow recordings by Antonio Janigro and the Radio Zagreb Symphony Orchestra. All three LPs are superbly recorded, but Janigro mutes the voice of Haydn's turmoil under a soft quilt of woodwinds...
...Pravda on the occasion of the Russian publication of The Other America. With obvious delight, Harrington quoted sections from the article: "Although Mr. Harrington is a bourgeois revisionist, he has portrayed the United States accurately. His only failing is that he has neglected the importance of the Communist vanguard in supporting the oppressed poor...
...came: Saturn had reached orbiting speed. The new satellite weighs 38,000 Ibs., and 20,000 Ibs. of it is payload. The weightiest Russian satellites, Sputniks 7 and 8, 1961, weighed only 14,292 Ibs. Only six years ago, the U.S. tried and failed to get a 3-lb. Vanguard into orbit...
...Supreme Court-which would abolish Ghana's technically independent judiciary. The second, and more important-copied almost verbatim from the Soviet constitution-would make Nkrumah's Convention People's Party the country's only legal political body and, like Russia's Communist Party, "the vanguard of the working people in their struggle to build a Socialist society...
International Army. The German engineers work for Hochtief, a hustling Essen-headquartered construction firm that is West Germany's largest. They are only the vanguard of what will be an international army of engineers drawn from Italian, Swedish, French and Egyptian construction companies. The job, whose feasibility was first worked out by the Swedes, will take seven years and cost $25 million; the expense has been largely met by contributions from the U.S., Kuwait and UNESCO. The overall boss of the international effort is 89-year-old Hochtief, whose name literally means "above below"-a reference to the firm...