Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...royal family's third-string Kensington Palace has seldom made news since the Duchess of Kent had a daughter there in 1819-and even then no one suspected that the gel would one day be Queen of England and Empress of India. Last week Queen Victoria's birthplace was less happily back in the headlines. In the House of Commons, a Labor M.P. suggested tartly that "at this time, when there are thousands of homeless in London," the government showed "deplorable priority sense" in spending $238,000 in public funds to repair the palace for its new occupants...
...only complaint Boston College could possibly make after its defeat is that it did not have the services of first-string goalie charlie Driscoll, who was out with an injury...
...presenting a series of Sunday afternoon chamber music concerts, Club Mount Auburn 47 aims for quality somewhere between the Paganini String Quartet and a student recital. The Mount Auburn Quartet's program of yesterday afternoon fell exactly where it should, in the middle: not really professional, but quite good enough...
...more enjoyable was the Beethoven C minor quartet, Op. 18. Although among Beethoven's first batch of string quartets, this quartet shows the vigor, delightful humor, and insistence on making the instruments serve the music that characterizes Beethoven's later quartet writing. The liveliness of the work seemed to wake up the performers; they started with good, solid attacks and supplied plenty of dynamic ups and downs. Cellist Lawrence Hamilton's full tone and adequate technique supplied a foundation to the ensemble, and second violinist Gretchen Anner played her solo in the trio of the third movement accurately, if without...
...presidential press conference was more than half over when a stocky, blonde woman reporter finally got the floor. "Sir," began Sarah McClendon, Washington correspondent for a string of 14 dailies in Texas and New England, "two well-known security risks have recently been put on a task force in the State Department to help reorganize the Office of Security." John F. Kennedy's face froze. Before Mrs. McClendon could go on, he interrupted her. "Well, now," said the President coldly...