Word: blocs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, Deputies from Milan, Naples, Rome and other cities had formed a solid pro-opera bloc. The Under Secretary of State for Spectacles withdrew his lubsidy bill and promised to submit a new, milder version. Florence's monkish Mayor Giorgio La Pira refused to sign orders laying off opera employees on the;rounds that it would require so much in severance pay that it was cheaper to keep ,hem employed. Said he: "Angels sing in perfect harmony. In paradise, nothing but music is heard. I must remind the government that in paradise the angelic chorus s not subject...
...shows: CBS's Have Gun, Will Travel, ABC's The Texan, The Californians, Oklahoma Kid, NBC's The Wagon Train, Pony Express. ABC's half-hour Lije and Legend of Wyatt Earp (8:30 p.m.) is at the center of a solid two-hour Western bloc that enables the network to dominate Tuesday evening viewing...
Predictably, a Nasser spokesman in Cairo denounced the Dulles proposals as "obvious favoritism for Israel" and "a way to give Israel a political victory as a result of armed attack." But while waiting for Israel's answer, the Asian-Arab bloc at the U.N. withheld their resolution to impose sanctions against Israel...
...Canada's farm equipment giant, Massey-Harris-Ferguson, Ltd., which may turn Standard into Europe's biggest farm-machinery producer. Besides its Standard, Vanguard and Triumph cars, Standard is producing 100,000 Ferguson tractors annually under license deal. Massey holds 18½% of Standard stock, the biggest bloc...
STEEL UNION REBELS rolled up surprisingly high vote in move to unseat President Dave McDonald. Preliminary count gave Insurgent Leader Don Rarick (TIME, Dec. 10) more than one-third of the ballots, which he interprets as a mandate to keep the anti-McDonald bloc intact and try again for election in 1961. Steelmakers fear Rarick group may try to outdo McDonald in contract demands, thus put squeeze on industry...