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...play with a major U.S. orchestra, feels that she is "one of the gang." She insists upon carrying her own bags, does not mind the bothersome business of changing behind trunks and fussing with her wardrobe while on tour (harpists find that pleated skirts stay neatly pressed if wound through the strings of their instruments). Says Boston's Leinsdorf: "Uniformly, the women's pride is so great that their attendance record is better than the men's. They have my utmost respect." But women rarely get the utmost money, and most orchestra managers freely admit that given...
...Certainty." Connally says he has never read the Warren Report, and he refuses to join the dispute over it. "History is bigger than any individual's feelings," he explains. "I don't want to discuss any other facets of the controversy except my wounds as related to the first shot that hit the President. They talk about the one-bullet or the two-bullet theory, but as far as I'm concerned there is no 'theory.' There is my absolute knowledge, and Nellie's [Mrs. Connally] too, that one bullet caused the President...
Assuming that a life-sized tornado could also be stopped by equalizing the charge on adjacent regions in storm clouds, Rossow proposes a novel experiment. Fine wire could be wound into a projectile and fired through tornado-spawning clouds. After the projectile leaves the cannon, a parachute-like plate attached to one end of the wire would pop open. It would pull on the wire, causing it to unravel from the speeding projectile...
...chef's knife. Still no luck. Finally she put down the knife, rested her hands on the table, and looked straight into the camera: "People say that you just carve it into chops, but you try to do it. I certainly can't." And with that, Julia wound up the show...
...blitz, the networks were convinced, if they had had any doubt before. Within days, three studios had been paid $92,500,000 for 118 films. Among them was 20th Century-Fox's Cleopatra, perhaps the most wildly unbusinesslike spectacular ever produced. Originally budgeted for $2,000,000, it wound up costing $40 million. It was only the $5,000,000 paid for TV rights that finally made the near-disaster into a moneymaker...