Word: fair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...president of Columbia Artists Management Inc., who thought the Soviet stars would make a smash hit in the U.S. if they could only be coaxed away from home at the "psychological moment." In 1939 he dickered with Georgy N. Zarubin, Soviet Commissioner to the New York World's Fair, and signed up a team of seven musicians, including Oistrakh and Gilels. He even booked Carnegie Hall for six evenings. Then the U.S.S.R. signed its nonaggression pact with Nazi Germany, and the scheme went up in smoke...
...year ago, the Soviets joined UNESCO. That, decided Schang, meant a major policy shift, and he promptly opened negotiations with the Soviet embassy in Washington to import Russian musicians. His cause was helped by the fact that the Soviet ambassador is the Georgy Zarubin of World's Fair days. It may also have been helped by the fact that Violinist Yehudi Menuhin met Oistrakh in London and began his own correspondence with the State Department in the hope of winning his colleague a visa to the U.S. When Schang asked about visas, he said, the State Department "encouraged...
...have just read with some amusement the July 4 letter of that blithe spirit, Virgil C. Krebs, of Cicero, Ill. Mr. Krebs sought not only to castigate the Richmond News Leader but the South in general (a popular sport in some parts of this fair land). Can it be that Mr. Krebs of Cicero, Ill. is weak in his own local history? Can it be that Mr. Krebs is unaware that his home town, having been born in sin, nurtured in bathtub gin, brothels and girlie shows, is the same town which grew and prospered and ultimately became...
...Russian farmers stopped to talk to children, kiss and play shyly with babies. Eying pretty farm girls, they nudged each other and giggled like schoolboys. They played rustic jokes on newsmen and on each other, passed out hundreds of green-and-gold souvenir medals from the Moscow agricultural fair...
Another city that has managed to avoid a massive parking headache is Los Angeles, which has more cars per capita (one for every two persons) than any other city in the world. When it banned curb-parking downtown, 42,000 off-street spaces at fair rates were provided. To head off future parking problems, Los Angeles County passed zoning laws that require nearly all new buildings and houses to include adequate off-street parking, e.g., one space for every two employees in an industrial building, one space for every ten seats in a church, one space per new house...