Word: formality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...actor Tony Perkins (Look Homeward, Angel) is doubtless quoted correctly in stating, "I've never studied acting" [Dec. 9], if he meant the formal study of the art. However, your readers will probably be interested to know that in his three years as an English major at Rollins College, he appeared in many plays under the very able direction of Professor Howard Bailey...
...formal speeches and offhand comments, the Administration's spokesmen have well telegraphed the direction of federal spending for fiscal 1959. The direction: up. The big item: $39 billion to $40 billion for defense, a $2 billion or so increase from fiscal 1958. Last week the Administration also telegraphed its overall policy for fiscal 1959: defense needs will shape the size of the budget, not vice versa...
...Lauris Norstad has observed: "I get my formal directives on a piece of paper which I receive from the NATO Council. But my real directive is the confidence that nations place in this agency." If the Paris meeting can restore and reinvigorate that confidence, the meeting will be well held...
...monopoly of nuclear weapons, will demand that control of any missile warheads based on French soil be vested in NATO rather than in the U.S. It is inadmissible, says Premier Gaillard, that some allies "should be a bit more equal than others." What the French most want is a formal reaffirmation that Algeria is included in the NATO area, plus a pledge that no NATO member will take action affecting the interests of another member without prior consultation...
...over a three-year period. In the crumbling Laotian capital of Vientiane, sarong-clad beauties pressed bouquets on Kishi, and Laotian government officials welcomed his offer of $4,000,000 in aid and technical assistance. In South Viet Nam's capital of Saigon, Kishi's reception was formal and cool. Saigon's politicians were miffed because 1) they hoped that Kishi would offer $150 million in reparations and help build a major dam for them, and he said not a word about it; 2) President Ngo Dinh Diem sees himself, not Kishi, as the spokesman...