Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lyndon Johnson worked fast and furiously to head off Big Bill. He got Arkansas' able Lawyer John McClellan to warn against writing hasty legislation on the floor, an old Senate bugaboo. And he got Jack Kennedy to promise to schedule three additional weeks of labor hearings, with the extra promise that additional labor-regulation bills will hit the floor by mid-June. The Johnson coalition held firm, voted down Knowland's amendments, but Knowland had won a victory for labor regulation by guaranteeing that the Senate will have to go on record this session on harder-hitting bills...
...What Is Right." Since London, Charles Rhyne has traveled far and fast...
International airline operations in Latin America, only 13 years ago the virtually unchallenged preserve of Pan American World Airways and Panagra, have become the world's hottest commercial aerial battle. Fifty-six international lines, including 37 fast comers incorporated in Latin America, now fight for passengers...
...smoke-hazed dining room of Las Vegas' Desert Inn last week, the supply of ready money would have staggered the earnest searcher for a low-rate bank loan. Free Scotch and fast talk was all it took to con a crew of well-heeled high rollers into coughing up $266,000 worth of bets. For his cash, each gambler was buying a crack golfer in the "Calcutta" auction before the Desert Inn's sixth annual Tournament of Champions. The man who owned the winner would get a whopping $95,760 share of the pot; even a lowly seventh...
...Robert Gross as violin soloist, it proved to be a propulsive, clamorous virtuoso work in both twelve-tone and traditional diatonic idioms, with its limber solo line woven through the big sonorities of the orchestra in a stirringly unfolding tapestry of sound. The first movement, in alternating slow and fast tempi, built to its main climax by echoing the solo violin nights with orchestral figurations set at closer and closer intervals. By turns, the second movement was complex and agitated, waltzlike and melodic, with muted violins and then muted trumpets repeating the soloist's refrainlike theme. The third movement...