Word: desk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Architects. Two dedicated men deserve most of the credit for the Common Market scheme. The idea was born to France's Europe-minded planner, Jean Monnet, who keeps a model of the Kon-Tiki on his desk as a symbol of those who take brave risks to prove an idea in the face of skepticism and indifference. The other man is NATO's newly chosen Secretary-General, Paul-Henri Spaak of Belgium, who has presided over the interminable treaty negotiations in Brussels. One reason why the near completion of the Common Market has burst on Europe...
...What? Incest again?" fans of Ivy Compton-Burnett will cry upon opening Brothers and Sisters. Again an old desk, locked for decades, containing a letter containing the terrible truth? Again a hard fate visiting the sins of the father upon the children...
...proud that his grandfather was a Scottish crofter, or tenant farmer (he keeps a picture of the croft on his desk). In 1843 grandfather left his farm on the barren Isle of Arran and walked to London, there founded the famed publishing house, Macmillan & Co. Ltd. Macmillan's mother was an American girl, Helen Belles, from Spencer, Ind.,* who met his father when she, recently widowed, had gone to Paris to study singing and he to study music. Young Harold won scholarships to Eton and Oxford, where he was secretary of the Oxford Union and hailed by the undergraduate...
Concernmaster During most of the season Richard Burgin, 64, sits unobtrusively at the violin section's first desk of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, as he has for the past 36 years. At the end of a performance the conductor or guest soloist will shake his hand; if the guest happens to be someone as impulsive as Leonard Bernstein, he may even kiss his cheeks. For the rest, the concertmaster's job is done out of the public view, preparing the violins for the effects the conductor wants, marking the bowings, in general setting the tone of the orchestra...
...blackest headlines breaking with the Administration. Perhaps the low point, in the Administration's eyes, came during the 1954 debate on the Bricker amendment, designed to dilute the President's treaty-making power. Just when Senate leadership was needed most, Knowland abandoned his majority leader's desk, walked to the rear of the Senate, announced that he was speaking as a rank-and-file Senator, and argued in favor of the amendment...