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...keep abreast of the jet age. One day last week the four-jet, 150,000-lb. Vulcan headed home from a 26,000-mile flight to Australia and back, and R.A.F. officials decided to give it a big welcome at London Airport, where all the world could see and applaud...
...syllable quivering through half a dozen notes. Elsewhere, the 70-voice chorus surged in powerful chant, defeating the squeaking, thudding, 50-piece orchestra. When it was over, Stravinsky bowed to the orchestra in the thundering silence and bounced off. Said one festival official: "In a cathedral the audience cannot applaud, but at least they cannot boo, either...
...number of acres taken out of production well beyond last year's 1,064,000-acre total. Though some cottonmen fear that only the poorest acreage will be allowed to lie fallow, and that farmers will produce as much as ever by working their remaining acres harder, most applaud the program...
...this election year most of us will exercise our right to criticize or applaud the efforts of the administration in the domestic field. Some may think that it has not gone far or fast enough; others may think it has gone too far. But its stated policies and objectives clearly accept the first of the underlying premises of the New Deal: that the federal government is responsible for certain minimum economic standards...
...first session, even their dutiful applause came in for criticism. As First Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev and the other big shots entered by a side door, they were greeted by a noisy standing ovation. Khrushchev strode to the microphone to say, "The Presidium has requested that the delegates not applaud every time we enter. Behave in the Communist way and show you are masters of this congress...