Word: finalized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...triumph of India, Ike moved on to Teheran, where for six chilly hours (28°) the Shah of Iran was his host. The Shah turned out some splendid Persian-style opulence for the visiting American: beautiful rugs were laid on the streets under ceremonial arches and along the final 200 yards of the route to the Shah's marble palace. After lunch with the Shah, Ike told the Iranian Parliament: "I well know you and the people of Iran are not standing on the sidelines in this struggle [for peace among nations]. Without flinching, you have borne the force...
...months short of 80, summed up his life's, work in what were his least controversial words. "I shall hope," he said simply, "that each of you will believe that through the years I have been faithful to your interests." Lewis' successor as U.M.W. president for the final year of his four-year term: Mild, humorous Vice President Thomas Kennedy, 72, a miner since 1900, onetime Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania (1935-39), who has lived and worked faithfully for 40 years in John L.'s massive shadow...
Just before the final curtain at a Broadway opening one night last week, the theater critic of the New York Times, a mild, slender, unassuming man with steel-rimmed spectacles and a grey mustache, slipped inconspicuously out of the Lyceum Theater and walked two blocks back to his paper. He settled into his chair on the third floor of the Times building on 43rd Street, and following the practice of years, spread out the theater program, a dozen freshly pointed pencils and a legal-size pad of lined paper. Then, writing by hand, one paragraph at a time-each snatched...
...final scene the audience was deeply moved by Oedipus (Tenor Gerhard Stolze) staggering onstage before Designer Caspar Neher's abstract backdrop (it looked like a microphotograph of a germ culture) and raising his sightless eyes with a beatific smile. Soprano Varnay refused to watch from the wings because "I dream about such things." Reported TIME Correspondent Paul Moor: "For a non-German-speaking audience, this opera has long, boring stretches because the music is so subservient to the text. Nevertheless, Orff has created a theater work of gripping power...
Last week came the showdown. Under Southeastern Conference rules, not until Dec. 7 can a college sign up a boy for an athletic scholarship, euphemistically called a "grant-in-aid" (tuition, fees, board, room, books, and $15 a month for laundry). For the final week's skirmishing, Dietzel and Vaught suspended worry about their coming Sugar Bowl game and grimly set out to capture...