Word: biennials
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Gracious, lively and charming, said the reviewers in 1931 when the brother-and-sister act last went on in Broadway's The Band Wagon. Then the girl went off to get married, but Fred Astaire got along on his own. Now, 34 years later, at the biennial Philharmonic Ball in Rochester's Eastman mansion, Fred, 66, accepted the George Eastman House Award, then twinkled with Sister Adele Astaire Douglass, 67, through some of the old steps from Funny Face and Lady Be Good...
Second and even more important, the School Committee's biennial elections are coming up this November. Observers have speculated that Eisenstadt felt that he was losing votes because he had endorsed a motion for the School Committee to meet with the leaders of the school boycott of 1964. His new busing proposal, however, placed him solidly back in the Hicks camp, and provided both him and Mrs. Hicks with a political hobbyhorse for the coming campaign...
...Ryder Cup golf team: its fourth straight victory in the biennial match-play tournament with British pros, scoring 191 points in 32 matches; at Southport, England. Ahead 9-7 after the two-ball and four-ball foursomes, the ten-man U.S. team smashed through the singles, taking ten and halving one of 16 matches, with Arnold Palmer clinching the tournament by stroking an 18th-hole eagle to beat his opponent's birdie-and dazzle an army that included Prime Minister Harold Wilson...
...nominations to the council have been made by council members themselves, then routinely approved by acclamation on the floor of labor's biennial convention; council members could thus perpetuate themselves in of fice. Beginning with the convention in San Francisco next December, executive council nominations will be made from the floor, then voted on. The change not only ensures the end of self-perpetuation but serves tactful notice to many members that they can either resign gracefully before December or be rudely ousted at the convention. Had he received any resignations from members lately, someone asked George Meany. Replied...
...place in the preview week before the opening, when critics, dealers, collectors and artists live exclusively on cocktails, hors d'oeuvres and art-world politics. With 5,000 works from 54 nations spread along some five miles of walls in an Oscar Niemeyer-designed pavilion, Brazil's biennial provides plenty to politic about...