Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though he was perhaps the most spectacular performer of the season, he was not alone. The fall of 1949 produced a full flowering of the congressional junket. With EGA, D.P. camps, trade barriers, military installations and the Folies-Bergere all to be inspected, almost any standing committee could dip into the public purse for foreign travel. A great many...
...A.F.L., straight-talking Walter Reuther and diplomatic Allan Haywood of the C.I.O. Outstanding among the Continental union leaders was The Netherlands' pudgy J. H. Oldenbroek, general secretary of the powerful International Transport Workers' Federation, which has 4,000,000 members in some 45 countries. In the fall of 1944, Oldenbroek helped organize the general strike in Nazi-ruled Holland. In an election this week, he was likely to be chosen for the job of general secretary of the congress...
Mighty in the Mountains. So adapted, Andean man can perform amazing quantities of work at altitudes where non-adapted lowlanders fall gasping and retching. The somber-eyed, long-exploited descendant of the Incas is in fact a sort of superman. "After eight hours' hard work in mines at more than 16,000 feet above sea level," says Dr. Monge, "his idea of relaxation is a soccer match in which he sometimes plays barefooted...
...they do not violate the College's basic Simple-Simon format. Remembering the one disastrous show that resulted when he took his wife's advice, Kyser says firmly: "It's only when you try to get too professional and want to class it up that you fall flat on your face...
With more ballets, Balanchine figures he can extend his season beyond its skimpy three weeks each fall and spring, keep his already devoted dancers eating a few more square meals a year. That too would be all right with Budgeteer Baum. He believes that City Center, which now operates 30 weeks a year (14 weeks of opera, eight of theater, six of ballet, two of modern dance), should operate a minimum of 40 weeks. And, says he, "I'll take 52 weeks straight if I can get them...