Word: breakoff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...making meaningful concessions at Geneva, the Administration plans to move quietly toward a resumption of nuclear testing in 1960. There will be no "big bang" at year's end to signalize the end of the moratorium; that suggestion has been rejected as "overly flamboyant." There will be no breakoff at Geneva, nor a breakoff from allies; the U.S. is prepared to go along with a British plan for joint U.S.-U.S.S.R.-British underground tests to improve detection techniques. Also, present plans are that the U.S. will bow to the worldwide outcry against radioactive fallout by resuming only underground tests...
...breakoff of negotiations with steel supplies running out and ripples of unemployment spreading across the land cracked Dwight Eisenhower's already worn-thin patience. "I am not going to permit the economy of the nation to suffer, with its inevitable injuries to all," he told his press conference. "I am not going to permit American workers to remain unnecessarily unemployed...
...modified its stand. Gromyko then made a largely meaningless procedural concession, and agreed to discuss Berlin "simultaneously" with Russian plans for an All-German Commission. So eager is British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd to keep the talking going in Geneva so that he would not have to explain a breakoff to the House of Commons (before it adjourns July 30) that Lloyd persuaded his colleagues to forget their threats and return to the bargaining table...
...first of the ten movements is a prayer for eternal peace, full of heartfelt sighs and dazzling sunbursts. The second (Dies Irae) begins with an insistent, plodding motif in the chorus, building up to a breakoff point when the four brass bands join in. At the work's first performance (so Berlioz claimed), the conductor stopped at that point and had a pinch of snuff, while Berlioz himself leaped to the podium to save the performance. Conductor Munch last week took no chance on faulty entrances, had his warning arm pointing straight toward heaven four bars ahead. The brass...
Died. Paul W. Shafer, 61, since 1937 a Republican Congressman from Michigan's traditionally conservative Third District; of a liver ailment; in Washington. A onetime newspaperman, Shafer learned his law from correspondence school, became known in the House for bluntly spoken opinion. He demanded a breakoff in diplomatic relations with Russia in 1949, demanded full U.S. recognition of Franco Spain the same year, befriended Korea's Syngman Rhee and warned, in 1947, of the dangers of a divided Korea. In 1952 he introduced a resolution calling for the impeachment of President Truman because he thought Truman had overstepped...