Word: directs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With last week's opening-night audience, at least, it was a direct hit. Composer Barber's Vanessa failed to be intensely moving or to spring any musical or dramatic surprises, but it could still lay claim to being the best U.S. opera yet staged at the Metropolitan...
Rigid censorship in Venezuela held up direct word of the extent of the strike and accompanying violence...
Help in Sight. Because Soviet-bloc trade with Latin America is still small ($220 million last year) and the trade offensive is still more promise than deed, Washington is keeping cool-but thinking hard about the future. U.S. officials still argue that direct loans to state oil monopolies would be an invitation for other governments to expropriate' U.S.-owned oil companies all over the world. "I am convinced of the advantages of free, competitive enterprise in the oil business," explains a high presidential adviser. "But when my judgment is asked in Washington, I shall say that I believe...
...governments put up the remaining three-fifths. How cheap it is for all concerned is shown by India, the world's greatest malaria reservoir. Farm workers used to lose 170 million man-days a year, and many areas suffered semistarvation because of the ravages of the disease. The direct death toll was a million a year, and dirt-poor villagers paid an average of 10 rupees each for nostrums. Already, with partial control programs, India has cut malaria cases from 75 million to 20 million, the death toll to 200,000 a year-at a cost of less than...
Sens. McClellan (D-Ark.) and Humphrey (D-Minn.) announced they would introduce a bill establishing a department of science and technology under a secretary who would direct the government's civilian science activities...