Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Georges Barrère. He understudied Barrère in the New York Symphony when he was only 17, graduated to the first-flute desk at the Philadelphia Orchestra when he was 27. Kinkaid's importance to the orchestra is so great that both Eugene Ormandy and his predecessor, Leopold Stokowski, refused to record flute solos without him; Stokie once had him freeze a diseased appendix long enough to sit through a recording session of Afternoon of a Faun...
...Little John tactical missile, with a range of ten miles. It weighs less than one-seventh as much as its predecessor. Honest John (800 lbs. v. 5,800), can easily be transported by helicopter...
...reference to it last week, Jack Kennedy's religion continued to be the paramount issue. The Rt. Rev. Wilburn C. Campbell, Episcopal Bishop of West Virginia, said he would rather not vote for a Roman Catholic, but retired Bishop Robert E. L. Strider, Dr. Campbell's predecessor, gave Kennedy his warm endorsement. Anti-Catholic pressures and threats forced a Kennedy worker to stop distributing literature and with draw from the campaign in tiny Parsons...
...design and development, and the research operation once a satellite or probe has been fired. His qualifications are ample. Born in Terre Haute, Ind., Silverstein graduated from hometown Rose Polytechnic Institute in 1929 and, although he had several better-paying offers, took an engineering job with NASA's predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, at $2,000 a year. Starting at Virginia's Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, he helped design the first full-scale wind tunnel, moved to Cleveland's Lewis Laboratory in 1943 and plunged into jet-engine research. Today...
...favorites don't make much sense in their new context, and, anyway, they are badly sung. Some of the dances are different, too: the cancan, as it is canned in this picture, is a more sanitary matter than the original Parisian routine-a noisy, sweaty predecessor of the striptease, with a name that is one of the more notorious puns in the French language...