Word: ende
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Riding Out the Rise. At week's end Gonzalez made devaluation law by decree. Instead of the eight old dollar-peso exchange rates, Chile got just one, pegged, after talks with the International Monetary Fund, at about 65 to the dollar. At the same time, food and drug products and bus fares got state subsidies, while income taxes were hiked and new taxes levied on horse-race betting, cigarettes, soft drinks and automobiles. And for the first time, tax-dodgers were made liable to imprisonment...
...Then we dash off some little twirp of a squib that we're almost ashamed to print and we please or antagonize our clientele no end. You never know...
...Although he had won respectful notices from critics, his name had seldom appeared in the calculations of the pundits and prophets who wanted to call the tune on Boston's new conductor. From the time 75-year-old Conductor Serge Koussevitzky announced that he would abdicate at the end of his 25 years of autocratic rule (TIME, April 19, 1948), they had been discussing heirs more apparent-31-year-old Koussevitzky Protege Leonard Bernstein, the New York Philharmonic-Symphony's part-time Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos, Cleveland's George Szell...
...Essential Condition. If Boston was pleased with Munch, there were also reasons why Munch could be pleased with Boston. As U.S. cities go, it had a long tradition of serious music: it had celebrated the end of the War of 1812 with performances of portions of Haydn's Creation and Handel's Messiah. Boston also boasted a club unique in the U.S. Ten or twelve times a year, as their ancestors have done since 1837, members of the exclusive Harvard Musical Association go to their paneled clubrooms on Beacon Hill for a smoker of chamber music, beans, beer...
...that followed was long and bitter ("Must a gentleman eat with a mucker?" cried the clubmen). In the end, Ivy, Cap and Gown, and the rest of the clubs continued to flourish for the benefit of juniors and seniors who as sophomores had been lucky enough to get elected...