Word: actes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...controversial loyalty affidavit of the National Defense Education Act will probably come up for consideration in Congress during its next session, the CRIMSON learned yesterday. Senator Joseph S. Clark '23, a co-sponsor of a previous bill to eliminate the affidavit, hopes to move his proposal out of the Labor and Public Welfare Committee where it was referred last July...
Unless there is a quick change in the situation, it is expected President Eisenhower will invoke the Taft-Hartley act to get the 500,000 strikers back in the mills for an 80-day cooling off period...
...most precarious balancing act since the original Great Wallendas retired from the high wire-President Eisenhower's 1960 budget-is still gamely keeping its balance. Budget Director Maurice H. Stans reported last week. Said normally solemn Accountant Stans, fighting hard to smother a grin: during the half-year since the President presented his budget to Congress, the economy's energetic climb has added $1.9 billion to the Administration's income estimate for fiscal 1960 (ending next June). But over the same span, the outgo estimate has also crept upward by $1.9 billion, reaching $78.9 billion. Biggest reason...
Every scene between Helen and Annie is electric in its excitement; for ten minutes in the second act, the audience sits fascinated as Annie teaches Helen to fold her napkin and to eat with a spoon; not a word is spoken. The performances of Miss Bancroft and Miss Duke so stand out that they obscure several other important assets. First, Gibson's play is astoundingly free of the oversentimentality that could so easily bog down an enterprise of this kind. Second, the rest of the cast, particularly Patricia Neal as Helen's mother and James Congdon as her half-brother...
...chief inspiration of this play by Joe Master-off is the tale of Cinderella, and for those who might otherwise miss this point, Julie Harris, as Ruth Arnold, mentions the fact several times per act. Of course, there is a switch to the fairy tale: Cinderella doesn't marry the Prince (who proves something of a scoundrel) but rather weds plain old Richard in Milwaukee...