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...internal expansion. Just how successful became known only last week. Issuing the first public financial report in its 119-year history, the behemoth of blue jeans announced that it earned $12.1 million in 1968 on sales of $196.8 million. That record makes it one of the nation's half-dozen biggest apparel manufacturers...
...last week concluded a three-week guest engagement with the Chicago Symphony prior to the formal takeover in September. His final concert-devoted entirely to Mahler's Second Symphony-demonstrated the kind of technical brilliance and interpretive sagacity that have made him one of the world's half-dozen best conductors. The audience gave Solti one of the biggest ovations ever witnessed at Orchestra Hall. Although he has the natural rhythm of a dancer, his performances tend to be chaste and severe rather than fiery or sentimental, with the emphasis on outlining the architectural structure of a work...
There was little in the way of furniture (a red couch in the big room, a large raised bed in the other), no heating, no lights, no plumbing. For warmth and light there was the one fireplace (in the living room) and the half-dozen or so tall standing lights to be used in the shooting. For a bathroom, there was the woods. For running water, there were the gas-station johns in town...
Regrettably, the first half-dozen of Blood's humorous black-out sketches do not give this impression. Bits about demonstrator-police confrontations or modern sex hangups stay abreast with our civilization rather than transcending...
...second person ever to capture three titles in a row. The first to do it was Steve Vehslage of Princeton eight years ago. "I think Anil's chances are excellent," said coach Jack Barnaby. "There's no doubt in my mind that he is one of the half-dozen best collegiate players of all time," he added...