Word: eager
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cozier Group. By week's end the eager peacemakers were having trouble, too. Algeria demanded a full meeting of the 32-member Organization of African Unity, in which Ben Bella partisans have a majority. Instead, Haile Selassie offered to serve as chairman of a truce meeting in Tunis including Hassan, Ben Bella and one of the unlikeliest political fraternities ever gathered outside the U.N. cocktail lounge-Egypt's Nasser, Tunisia's Habib Bourguiba, Libya's King Idriss, Mali's Modibo Keita, and Guinea's Sekou Toure...
...sent her off for three months in Hollywood, a celebrity among celebrities. "It was the turning point of my life," says Dorothy today. And so it was. In 1938, on the death of O. O. Mclntyre, the Journal's Broadway columnist, the paper passed over a field of eager contenders to bestow Mclntyre's mantle on the little girl from Brooklyn who had talked her way around the world. Bud Ekins, by then, was roving the Far East for U.P. When he died last week he was editor-publisher of the Schenectady, N.Y., Union-Star...
There are 136 pyramidal ceiling reflectors for sound, but no one is eager to tinker with them. At its opening, Scharoun's new hall seemed acoustically excellent as Von Karajan filled its angular spaces with squiggles of sound from softest pianissimo to heftiest fortissimo, leading his firstchair men through a delicate movement of a Haydn string quartet and then the full orchestra through Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Critics breathed sighs of relief over the splendid sound-function, it seemed, had not been betrayed by revolutionary form...
...Corfu and keeps apartments in Rome and New York and, happily established as a princely bachelor, he avoids all thought of a permanent conductorship somewhere. When he first led an orchestra, he says, his legs "trembled like violet stems," but success has blessed him with massive assurance. Now, in eager pursuit of a future he scarcely has reason to doubt, he says that "it's a marvelous feeling to know that you know more. I've known before that I know music. Now I know I can run a theater. I don't have a power complex...
...argue the Administration's case for a $60 million appropriation to get a U.S. supersonic jetliner program moving - and he needed some help. What about placing some orders, asked Halaby, even though the final design of the U.S. plane has not been decided on. U.S. airlines, though hitherto eager to order the Anglo-French Concorde supersonic because it promised to be first, made a show of confidence in the eventual success of the U.S. program by ordering 29 planes...