Word: c
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Council also failed to pass a democratizing change in undergraduate election procedure, proposed by elections Chairman George C. Pontikes...
Gross began with the C-minor Phantasie of Mozart. It was played with care and restraint, except perhaps in the pedalling, which seemed excessive. The piano, poor in tone and tune, may have been the cause of occasional blurs, especially in the lower register. Certain of Mozart's dynamic indications were given too extreme an interpretation. Una corda should probably be more sparingly used in Mozart, and Beethoven. Here again, some inadequacy in the piano itself may have been responsible...
Wyoming's Democratic Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, who has been sniping away for months at the foreign operations of U.S. oil firms, last week developed a new line of attack. He asked the Administration to consider imposing a tariff on oil imports, to offset "the threat to our national security" resulting from the loss of tax revenues from overseas oil operations. What Senator O'Mahoney meant in particular was the Arabian American Oil Co.'s tax arrangement with Saudi Arabia, through which Aramco last year avoided paying a penny of corporate income...
...selling job, three years ago became National Steel's president. For the job of chairman, soon to be named, Washington rumor suggested the name of about-to-resign Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), once chairman of National's executive committee. ¶ Kenneth C. Brownell, 54, moved up from president to board chairman and chief executive officer of American Smelting & Refining Co., succeeding Roger W. Straus, 65, Eisenhower Republican and founder of the National Conference of Christians and Jews. A product of Yale and Harvard Business School, Brownell has worked for American Smelting since 1927. Into...
Knock Three Times. In Lexington, Ky., after an elderly man was told by a St. Joseph's Hospital receptionist that E. C. Jones could not have visitors but that he was "much improved," he seemed relieved, said. "I'm glad to hear it. I've been here ten days and couldn't learn that much from the doctors. I'm E. C. Jones...