Word: chief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quarter funds before second-quarter funds can be released. But Laotians, not accustomed to American accountants' techniques, were slow to comply with all the forms, despite lengthy pleas from Vientiane. Rather than see the whole program collapse before the rainy season stops all work in June, ICA Mission Chief Daly Lavergne fortnight ago decided on his own to release more funds without a Washington go-ahead. Hearing of this, Premier Phoui grinned with relief...
...Bolshoi's managers spared no pains for their first U.S. tour. They selected the top 110 dancers from a total company of 250, including Ulanova's chief rival, Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, who for rumored political reasons had not appeared in the West before. With them came 40 tons of scenery, scaled down to fit the Met stage (a third smaller than the Bolshoi's home stage), and a generous ham-perful of the meat-and-potatoes favorites with which the company regularly sells out its home season. Because of the difficulty of shifting the Bolshoi...
Last week the 16-year controversy was finally ended. The old archbishop had gone into virtual retirement; Mayor Kubitschek was President of Brazil; and Architect Niemeyer was an ex-Communist. After a long talk with Brazil's national-monuments chief, Auxiliary Archbishop Dom João Rezende Costa agreed that the church has "great artistic significance and a spiritual atmosphere." Refurbished by Architect Niemeyer, the old chapel was at last consecrated by Archbishop Rezende Costa before an enthusiastic crowd of citizens. Said the archbishop: "Now we can feel the wonderful art created here in homage to the Creator." Said...
...housekeeping in a little villa at Le Cannet overlooking terraced olive and almond groves with the Mediterranean beyond. Sea, fruit, sunshine, the glow of Marthe's flesh, the dark contrasting sheen of their dachshund, flowers, the trees and the soft airs were his joys and his chief materials...
Died. Alfred Nu* Steele, 57, board chairman and chief executive officer of the Pepsi-Cola Co., onetime vice president of the Coca-Cola Co., who in 1955 became the fourth husband of Cinemactress Joan Crawford; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...