Word: wells
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Israeli commanders believe that the Soviet Squadron serves a vital purpose beyond familiarizing pilots with their enemies' planes. The Israelis have been so successful in capturing enemy equipment, which Westerners get to see, that the Soviets may well be loath to put their most sophisticated weaponry into Arab hands...
...been with Sihanouk, however, but with the State Department. Foggy Bottom had completed its 1969 budget before the decision was made to resume relations with Cambodia. As a result, said an aide, "we're having a tough time breaking loose the money. We're on rock bottom." Well, not exactly. Answering the mission's call for supplies with characteristic bureaucratic efficiency, State recently dispatched a C-130 with a batch of supplies that included 30 mattresses but no bedsteads...
...Hoppe of the San Francisco Chronicle went to the future tense. It is January 1971, and President Nixon has just assessed the state of the Union. "Well, Chet, do you have an instant analysis?" "Yes, I do, David. I'd say it was the most magnificent, glorious, stirring speech since the Gettysburg Address. I think my biggest thrill came when he said, T want to make one thing perfectly clear.' I always get a thrill when I realize the President's going to make one thing perfectly clear...
...that they can experiment with a single gene, scientists may well learn how it orders the cell to produce vital proteins, and what substances cause the gene to "turn on" or "turn off." Ultimately, this could lead to the repair or replacement of defective genes and the cure of hereditary diseases...
...work has been kept alive over the years by a handful of conductors such as Rafael Kubelik of Munich's Radio Orchestra and Charles Mackerras of London's Sadler's Wells Opera. Another devoted fan is Walter Susskind of the St. Louis Symphony, who remembers Janáček from his student days in Prague. He compares Janáček's originality with that of America's Charles Ives. Like Ives, Janacek was a weird, lonely figure who owed little to his musical ancestors and had no true descendants. His method of composing...