Word: cio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Opera Association had selected a surefire heart-throbber-Puccini's Madame Butterfly. The 32-piece orchestra launched into the opening bars as the distant view of the Jemez range faded in the dusk. Tenor William McGrath and Soprano Maria Ferriero soared expertly through Lieut. Pinkerton's and Cio-Cio-San's famous love scene climaxed by her Twilight Has Fallen, and Butterfly's lingering, final-curtain suicide touched off a round of applause that lasted through ten curtain calls. Technically, there were a few first-night bobbles. Gusts off the hills threatened to sweep away...
...considerable praise it elicited, and replied to a Congressional critic, CBS itself made no response to the President's criticism. When some cries arose because the Khrushchev interview had not been followed by a rebuttal, the network obediently scheduled one. That produced more controversy when AFL-CIO President George Meany, scheduled to participate, withdrew after learning that segments of the Khrushchev interview would be re-shown in the course of the program...
...University painter sits in a room with three others, chewing a candy bar, and wonders if the AFL-CIO boys can help. A garbage collector rides in the back of his collection truck, sorting out valuables and wondering where the students get their money from...
...different handbills are currently being circulated among University employees. One, a simulated dollar bill, states on one side: "FOR REAL MONEY VOTE AFL". On the other side there is a personal message from George Meany, President of the AFL-CIO. It reads...
...CIO Executive Council, organized labor's highest tribunal, removed Beck permanently as an AFL-CIO vice president and council member on charges leveled by the Senate Rackets Investigating Committee...