Word: fee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Toscas), Bing regards her Met debut in 1956 in Norma as "the most exciting of all such in my time at the Metropolitan." Bing also recalls Callas' husband and manager Battista Meneghini, who insisted on being paid in cash before the curtain rose every night. Callas' fee then was $1,000. "Toward the end," recalled Bing, "I had him paid in five-dollar bills, to make a wad uncomfortably large for him to carry...
...group of old-money clubs that exist in every big metropolitan area. It will be a long time before prospective members are put through less than total scrutiny at such WASPish establishments as Chicago's Onwentsia Club, the St. Louis Country Club, the Los Angeles Country Club (entrance fee: $25,000) or Long Island's Maidstone Club...
...voted against the amendment, mused: "I do not understand why the policy, if we are going to apply it, should not apply, for example, to Uganda, which is arbitrarily driving out of the country some 60,000 natives who were born and raised there, not only charging a fee but confiscating all their property. Or why it should not apply to all dictatorial countries where emigration is denied to its citizens or where excessive emigration fees are imposed as in the Soviet Union...
...reserve section--for those with fewer than 1900 master points--sophomore Ted Jewell scored three wins, giving him a tie for second in the Class B race and $5 of his $8.50 entry fee back...
Club Casablnea, 40 Brattle St., will sponsor a backgammon tournament at 6 p.m. Sunday in an effort to raise money for the New England Eye Bank. The first 64 persons to pay the $10 entry fee will be able to play...