Word: roughnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Later in the week, Agnew was again on display in his more familiar domestic role, assailing political foes without the encumbrances imposed by dealing with foreign allies. In a Los Angeles fund-raising speech, nominally in praise of Senator George Murphy, the hard-pressed Republican incumbent, Agnew opened a rough counterattack on the politically dangerous economic issue. The Democrats, he said, would spend the country into bankruptcy and socialism if given half a chance. As evidence, he noted that Democratic National Chairman Lawrence O'Brien-a frequent critic of Nixon on the economy -had presided over a Wall Street...
...design of the magnetic train has been worked out in considerable detail; the greatest hurdle to actual production is money. One rough estimate is that the Super-Super Express will cost the Japanese at least $3.5 billion. The U.S. Government, for its part, has not made any commitment to such an expensive scheme. But the California researchers are hopeful that they will eventually get funds from Washington. They have already decorated their office walls with a poster that reads, MAGLEV...
With help from the California Highway Patrol and bridge authorities, Berkeley's Seiden now knows enough about the Golden Gate jumper to rough in his profile. Typically, he is a man (three out of four jumpers) in his 40s, and a Bay Area resident. Experience has taught observers to rule out the pedestrian who climbs a cable and poises irresolutely before the swan dive. Such behavior usually describes the "pseudo suicide," who does not really mean business; he can be coaxed, if necessary, to climb down...
...Soviet Union continues to give strong backing to the Arabs. But by their unwillingness to encourage and finance another round of war with Israel, the Soviets have forced both Arabs and Israelis to consider the rough outline of a possible settlement. If negotiations proceed successfully, the most plausible scenario is that Israel will relinquish the bulk of the territories it conquered in the Six-Day War in return for ironclad guarantees that the Arab states will accept Israel's existence. From such an agreement, a number of benefits might ultimately flow: the reopening of the Suez Canal, a solution...
...second piece on the program, the Bartok Divertimento for String Orchestra was extremely well done. This three movement piece is highly symmetrical, very mature Bartok, composed in 1939. It's movements, Allegro non troop, Molto adagio, and adagio assai. are quite transparent, the first a rough sonata form, the second consisting of three figures, the first identical to the last, and the third a rondo. The amazing virtuosity of the violin sections was made abundantly clear in this work, especially in the third movement...