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...judge. When Field ruled against Sarah, Terry floored a courtroom bailiff, served six months for contempt. After his release, he attacked Field on a California train and was about to draw his bowie knife when Field's bodyguard shot and killed him. Field went on to serve the longest term in Supreme Court history (34 years, nine months). Sarah spent the next 45 years in an insane asylum...
...into the ranks of the full-fledged heldentenor. Basically, this requires a voice with the coloring of a baritone and the range of a tenor. Unlike the bel canto tenor who must employ vocal embroidery, the heldentenor must possess the raw power and endurance to sing the weightiest and longest roles in opera. The supreme tests are Wagner's Tristan and Siegfried, which require 65 and 90 minutes respectively, as compared, say, with the 22 minutes for Tosca. Lauritz Melchior, the last great heldentenor, did not attempt Tristan until he was 39. Thomas, now 38, figures that his voice...
...unsettling enough just meeting those purple elephants on the way to the TV set. For millions of red-eyed U.S. football fans, what happened afterward in the New Year's Day bowl games was far harder on the nerves. In one incredible, irrational day, college football's longest winning streak was snapped, all but one of the remaining undefeated major teams were beaten,* three schools' dreams of winning the national championship were shattered, and the No. 4 team in the nation became the No. 1 team-by beating the No. 3 team...
Take a look at the Councillors who voted for Hayes and DeGuglielmo: Hayes has only been on the Council since '62; Goldberg since '62; Coates since '64; Maher since last week; and Mrs. Wheeler, with an interruption, since '60. Of the Curry supporters, Crane, Vellucci, and Sullivan have the longest tenure of any current Councillors. Thomas H. D. Mahoney, first elected in 1963, is the sole newcomer, and his loyalty to Curry can be explained, to a large extent, by a long friendship with Crane...
...ambitious and complex Apollo mission seems less formidable now as a result of the Gemini performance. The 14-day flight of Gemini 7 surpassed the total number of Russian man-hours in space, but more important, it equaled the longest scheduled duration of a successful Apollo round trip to the moon. And it apparently proved that man can survive such long periods of weightlessness without permanent ill effects...