Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eleanor Roosevelt dropped in. Senator Arthur Vandenberg invited him-but no hurry about it-to talk to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He decided that he would go to Moscow in March for the Council of Foreign Ministers meetings. Coming to closer grips with the sizzling Argentina policy controversy, he conferred with Ambassador George Messersmith and Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden...
...realizations and recognitions which we would have the Russians make lie closer to the surface of the Russian mind than we might think. In fact, the more closely they approach the surface, the more violently the Russian tries to inhibit them and to conceal them by vehement protestations in the other direction. It is our business to help him with this problem...
...Hector Berlioz, but, unlike Berlioz, Sessions seldom repeats themes to give listeners something to cling to. The new symphony's unmuted brasses were as noisy as Shostakovich's, and some passages reminded hearers of the atonalist music of Hindemith and Schonberg. Sessions, however, believes that he is closer to Hungary's late, great Bela Bartok. And he hates to be called atonal: "I hear my music with the same kind of ear I use to listen to Beethoven...
...arguments pro and con have ranged far afield into discussions of budgetary balancing, fiscal policy, and inflationary effects, but none of the proponents of tax reform have examined HRI at its most vulnerable point. Despite the apparent justice of an equiproportional tax cut for everybody, the bill proves on closer examination to be a vicious example of regressive tax relief. In effect, the brainchild of Messrs. Knutson and Martin gives little aid to the lower income brackets and reserves the plums for the well...
Barclay used five men to guard Lawry at various stages of the evening, but none was especially effective. The Princeton forward scored from outside on Steve Davis, Leo Page,, and Pete Petrillo in the first half, and when Bill Henry and Saul Mariaschin guarded him closer in the final period, he dribbled in to tally. When the evening ended, he had eight field goals and seven fouls for a 23-point aggregate. Lawry has habitually enjoyed his hottest nights against Harvard...