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...Choreographer Balanchine, it was the fourth premiere in an amazing nine-week stretch. The first was Square Dance, a whimsical leap between cultures. To the chamber music of Corelli and Vivaldi and the cadenced commands of Square Dance Caller Elisha C. Keeler, dancers executed the disciplined, classic patterns that Balanchine has made a trademark. The mixture was unlikely, but when Keeler had twanged out his last call ("That is all; the dance is ended/ The music is finished; the caller's winded''), audiences cheered the blend of do-si-do and pas de deux...
Striding three paces forward from the swinging central doors of the House of Representatives chamber, Doorkeeper William M. ("Fishbait") Miller sucked breath and bellowed the call that has been his prerogative for eight congressional sessions. Cried Mississippian Miller: "Mistuh Speakuh, the President of the United States!" A packed chamber's applause pealed out as Dwight Eisenhower, following Doorkeeper Miller and followed himself by an escort of four Senators and two Representatives, made his smiling way down the aisle to the House well...
...Federal Reserve Board kept other forms of credit tight, despite the rising clamor of businessmen for easier money. The New York Chamber of Commerce and Chairman William H. Moore of Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co. both appealed to the Fed to ease credit by lowering the amount of funds that commercial banks are required to hold in reserve against demand deposits. But Fed Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr., speaking at Richmond, Va., still branded inflation as the economy's enemy No. 1-hardly the talk of a man prepared to make money easier...
...being stolen." The foundation has already shown that a welfare fund can save thousands of dollars simply by smarter management, e.g., competitive bidding on health-insurance contracts. Corporations have also been at fault. Vice President Frank B. Cliffe, of H. J. Heinz Co. and pension expert for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, lays heavy blame for abuses in jointly run welfare plans on neglect by management, which "thought its obligations ended with the payment of its contributions...
...scandals have centered in labor and jointly controlled welfare funds, insists that trusteed company pension plans should be left alone. The American Bankers Association feels that federal regulation of all pension plans is unnecessary interference with the bankers who have run them for years with few complaints. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce argues that full disclosure of pension investments could unbalance the stock market, that prices would gyrate as the public followed the big funds' buying and selling...