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...Sciences (TIME cover, June 2, 1958), added little new information, but they rehashed the flight with unflagging enthusiasm. And they promised to release more scientific data soon. Told that U.S. newsmen had suggested he came from a princely family, Gagarin cracked: "I express my regret, but I have to disappoint them...
Through the Prince trust, he became chairman of five boards, president of 13 companies and director of 17, including Armour. He did not disappoint Cousin Fred, who died at 93 in 1953. As boss of Chicago's Union Stock Yards from 1949 through 1957, Billy Prince spent $2,000,000 on improvements, another $3,000,000 to enlarge and air-condition the International Amphitheatre at the Yards. When Armour needed a new chief in 1957, the board turned automatically to Director Billy Prince...
...gleefully told Ferhat Abbas: "The only victory at Melun was its failure. If you had accepted, or even if the French had made conces sions you could have accepted, the Algerian revolution would be dead. Your reaction at Melun proved your maturity. We were afraid you would disappoint us." In Manhattan Khrushchev hurried to get back on the revolutionary bandwagon, told the Algerians that only power counts, and proposed a two-stage assistance program. The first would be shipment of non-military supplies-which, to avoid provoking a general conflict, would be landed at allegedly neutral ports in Tunisia...
...disappoint to see the Bach Society let down its patron saint after serving his successor so handsomely. An ensemble of ten strings, supported by Michel Singher '62 on the harpsichord, was foiled by the virtuosic demands of the Great Man's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3. Intonation was faulty throughout, if not in the 'celli, than in the violins; the resultant thick texture took the edge off of Mr. Lazar's intimate and a bit over-respectful interpretation...
...international aims had sunk to "a stammering of scarcely sensible noises," as Author Hughes asserts, he would have no audience to address. If latter-day U.S. foreign policy had failed as persistently as Author Hughes argues it has. there would be no great expectations to invoke or disappoint, either at home or abroad...