Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sunday afternoon, the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra joined the festival with its strongest program in years. Unfortunately, its performance was disappointing. Beethoven's First Symphony, which should be within the Orchestra's scope, never seemed to get off the ground. Although the woodwind and brass sections were unusually strong, the strings were unable to carry their weight; the violins were ragged and the cellos unnecessarily heavy. In a vain effort to keep everyone together, conductor Attilio Poto chose calm and moderate tempi, but these only made the faults more obvious...
When the guided missile whistled into everyday military planning, the brainy brass of the U.S. Army whistled in low alarm. If nations were going to fight wars by trading off hydrogen payloads, then the Army was going to have a hard time justifying a budget for a 1,500,000-man ground force and the armament that goes with it. The Army's answer was to lobby hard-on contradictory lines: 1) the world will probably succumb to an atomic stalemate, hence the U.S. will need a conventional army which for maximum efficiency will need...
...pointing out that the peacetime assignments did not necessarily predetermine the weapons and forces that field commanders could use in war time. He also promised that the Army could conduct "feasibility studies" on the use of an intermediate-range missile. But his assurances did not mollify the Army brass. Snapped a top Army planner when Wilson's decision was handed down: "This thing isn't going to stop us." The Army's probable next line of defense: congressional hearings at budget time...
...Recognizing that the ancient feud between Italy and Yugoslavia over Trieste was a potential source of war and was distracting Italy from other serious problems, she 'helped get U.S. backing for a brass-tacks London negotiating conference, meanwhile worked hard in Rome to help iron out details of a Trieste settlement that still works ("No one will ever know," wrote Milan's major daily Corriere della Sera, at the time of the Trieste settlement, "how much Italy owes to this fragile blonde...
...method worked, he said, for the Council was invited to a dinner "with all the MIT and Harvard brass." Administrators from the two universities showed Vellucci pictures and maps of how they might solve the problem. "I even got my name card autographed by Dr. Pusey," he added...