Word: 130th
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...passed its 143rd week (1,140 performances) on Broadway to set a new sellout record for long-run shows. Oklahoma!, the former champ, missed out on some standees in its 143rd week; South Pacific had a few square feet of space in the rear of the theater after its 130th week. By year's end Lady's producers expect their books to show $10 million of gross business, a round million more than their nearest competitor, South Pacific...
...went without saying that the No. 1 guest would be Eisenhower of the U.S. When he was stricken with ileitis, the meeting, originally scheduled for June 25-26 to celebrate the 130th anniversary of Simón Bolivar's first Pan-American conference, was postponed (TIME, July 2). With Ike present, the gathering promised to be harmonious; perhaps the knottiest problem to be threshed out will be the wording of a declaration of Western political ideals. And such traditional enemies as Costa Rica's liberal President José Figueres and Nicaragua's perennial Strongman Anastasio Somoza will...
...Boston. 583 voting delegates to the 130th annual meeting of the American Unitarian Association heard a report of a committee appointed last year to study the thorny question of whether Unitarians have any business making resolutions on non-church matters. "To abandon the practice now," the report decided, "could be interpreted as a move of caution or expediency ... in the present climate of opinion adverse to free speech, heretical views and diversity of opinion. " One of the "hazards" of being a Unitarian, according to the report, is that Unitarians believe in "work for the kingdom of God." and that kingdom...
James B. Conant president of Harvard University will be their graduation speaker at Colgate University's 130th commencement exercises to be held there on Monday June...