Word: silvering
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Through the cold, predawn darkness of Washington one day last week, a small group of high U.S. officials known informally as the "Committee of Principals" drove to the Military Air Transport Service terminal. There they boarded a silver Douglas C-118, took off for Augusta, Ga. to keep an 8:30 a.m. appointment with the President. Within three days the U.S.'s self-imposed, 14-month suspension of nuclear tests was due to expire on its deadline of midnight Dec. 31. The urgent question to be decided that morning: Should the U.S., or should it not, renew the nuclear...
...kickoff. Matched against outweighed Washington, Wisconsin was a solid 6½-point favorite to continue the haughty Big Ten's annual devastation (12 victories in 13 years) of any team the West Coast could field. "I don't know why I keep coming back," complained one silver-flasked fan. "All I do each year is get drunk and start crying...
...hours," but Sessions, who rarely performs in public, found that he had to "practice very hard." The four rehearsed with Stravinsky only three times. "He was," says Copland, "a little worried about us." But even Stravinsky was delighted with the way the performance went off, gave each composer a silver-framed, inscribed photograph as a memento. Why had the four interrupted their own busy schedules to undertake Les Noces? "Stravinsky," says Lukas Foss simply, "is a composer's composer...