Word: ets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris, after the war, as a member of the Italian foreign service, Sogno became impressed by the posters and publications of Jean Paul David's anti-Communist Paix et Liberté movement (TIME, Nov. 13, 1950). After the heavy blow to Italian democracy in the 1953 elections, Sogno returned to Rome and started an anti-Communist monthly called Pace e Libertà. For his editor Sogno chose a formidable man: square-jawed Luigi Cavallo, an ex-Communist and ex-editor of the Red daily L'Unità. To dish the dirt on the Reds, Cavallo drew on extensive...
With understandable pride, the orchestra played a modern Dutch composition, Henk Badings' Symphony No. 2 (1932), a sturdy work that might have been written by a latter-day Brahms, its three movements definitely dissonant but never harsh. High point of the concert was Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe Suite No. 2, in which the strings provided a deep, sunset-colored perspective for the shrill syrinx tones of the piccolo, and the brasses built easily to a sweeping culmination. There were subtle orchestral colors that listeners had never heard before, but for all the music's impressionist vagueness...
There was no mistaking the trend (TIME, Dec. 7 et seq.). Besides the Palace, Sheraton last week picked up Manhattan's 1,500-room McAlpin for $9,000,000, its fifth hotel purchase in two months. Now the No. 2 chain in the country, with 32 hotels with room for 24,000 guests, the Sheraton beat No. 1 Operator Conrad Hilton (with 27 hotels sleeping 30,000) to the Palace by offering Mrs. Johnston about $6,500,000, or some $2,000,000 more than Hilton...
...Association, unconvinced, had no choice but to appeal to the courts. They could not sue Harvard themselves, nor force the Attorney General to do so; yet their strongest feeling has been that some judicial test is necessary. The case of John S. Ames et al.V.Attorney General, therefore , is for a writ of Mandamus to compel Fingold to rehear their application according to "a proper appreciation of his own duty and the rules of law applicable to the questions involved "Meanwhile there were still quiet efforts to smooth out affairs. Two Association directors had been meeting with Harvard officials, and once...
...General Walter Bedell Smith, 59, Under Secretary of State and stand-in for Secretary John Foster Dulles at the recent Geneva Conference (TIME. July 26 et seq.), became vice-chairman of the board of the American Machine & Foundry Co. in what Chairman-President Morehead Patterson called "a key policymaking role in the company...