Word: williams
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LUCERNE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL (Aug. 13-Sept. 7). Good music, beautifully performed by topnotch artists, has always been Lucerne's strength. This year, the conductors include George Szell, Herbert von Karajan, William Steinberg and Istvan Kertesz. Two husband-and-wife teams-Chris-ta Ludwig and Walter Berry, Jacqueline Du Pré and Daniel Barenboim-will be heard in joint recitals. Among other soloists: Flutist Jean-Pierre Rampal, Pianist Geza Anda, Violinist Zino Francescatti, Cellist Pierre Fournier...
More than 50,000 South Koreans watched the launch on a giant screen in Seoul. David Threlfall, 26, waited in London to collect his bounty from the bookmaking firm of William Hill Ltd.; he bet $24 in 1964 that men would land on the moon by 1971, and got 1,000-to-l odds. In Beirut on the morning of launch, a woman gave birth to her eleventh child-and promptly named him Apollo Eleven Salim. The Grand Mufti of Egypt, Sheik Ahmed Hereidi; said he approved lunar exploration because "the Koran urges Moslems to look up from their earthly...
Understandable Reluctance. Overall, few experts would question that Abe Abrams' aggressive tactics in Viet Nam have been markedly more successful than those of his predecessor, General William Westmoreland. Last fall Abrams replaced Westmoreland's ponderous battalion and brigade assaults with squad-sized thrusts. His Operation Sting Ray called for hundreds-sometimes thousands-of small patrols daily. The enemy's infiltration trails through the jungles, mountains and paddies were denied him. American troops began operating after dark, and for the first time in the war the night no longer belonged to the Viet Cong. Last year more than...
...Committee Chairman Russell Long raised prospects of a long delay before action on extension of the surtax, and Wall Street was bothered even more. Most disturbing of all, Treasury Secretary David Kennedy put on yet another inexpert performance. At the beginning of the week, he and Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin met with 24 top bankers and, much to the disappointment of investors, failed to win any promise that bank interest rates will not be raised still higher. The next day Kennedy told the Senate Finance Committee that if Congress failed to extend the surtax, the Administration "may want...
...William E. Simkin, 60, who served for eight years as the director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, will come to Harvard as the Meyer Kestnbaum Fellow, and as a Fellow of the Institute of Politics in the John as a Lecturer in Business Administration...