Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...utterly wild a scheme that we can't resist!" So saying, the management of the London Symphony canceled 20 recording sessions, five concerts, refused an invitation to the Athens Festival and, with the abandon of undergrads leaving for spring vacation, bundled the orchestra off to that big sandbox in the sun, Daytona Beach, Fla. They are the attraction at the first Florida International Music Festival, by far the most culturally ambitious festival in the Southeast...
...Twentieth Century, whose 80-man crew now often outnumbers passengers, approached last week when New York Central President Alfred E. Perlman announced plans to abandon, starting Jan. 1, all passenger routes of over 200 miles...
...Better Answers. Whether or not Catholic education is effective, Greeley and Rossi conclude that it is not about to disappear. For one thing, the church could ill afford to abandon a multibillion-dollar investment. For another, the opinion survey showed that most Catholics, regardless of their educational background, approved of parochial schools and preferred that their own children attend them. Finally, the survey editors believe that the church in the U.S. has not found a better way to teach children what it means to be a Catholic...
...also masterminded Lady Bird's raft ride down the Rio Grande last spring. She persuaded park rangers to abandon their headquarters so that it could serve as a pressroom. She checked the river to make sure that there was enough water for rafting, placed privies at strategic sand bars along the route. For the benefit of anxious photographers, she launched the expedition under a full moon. And she exhorted the reporters: "The management of this trip is not responsible if these elaborate procedures fail to work. In that case, don't blame us. Just put the copy...
Faced with such impossible demands, the Social Democrats' Willy Brandt could only abandon the whole project and denounce Norden's performance as "a total relapse into the positions of the cold war." Brandt was still determined to pursue open East-West discussion on questions of reunification. In fact, his Social Democrats were already toying with a compromise scheme to replace the speakers' exchange: revival of an old idea to invite East German politicians to speak in a televised panel discussion on West German...