Word: formals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year for the first time Harvard, which has never had a formal theatre program, has made Sanders Theatre available for the whole season to a dramatic group outside the University. Harvard College itself has just experienced an unusually fecund theatrical season among the various undergraduate drama groups, which presented approximately 50 major productions during the 1955-56 academic year...
...State Department flowed a torrent of policy decisions and position papers, hopes and trends and agreements, formal notes and informal memoranda-not to mention visiting foreign ministers and ambassadors-all symbolizing the quickening tempo of the cold war. Items of the week...
...dead seriousness of the plot explained the rough repression-by-execution that followed. The first 20 or so killings took place so soon after the shooting that they could be blamed on the heat of the battle. But the last score were formal executions, carried out mostly against insurgent military men. The condemned, blindfolded, stood against the wall late at night in barracks' squares or the yard of the National Penitentiary, and eight-man volunteer firing squads (four with live ammunition, four with blanks) shot them...
...millennialism, and with it the notion that for Christ's second coming the Jews must be liberated and perhaps even converted. Cromwell, impressed less with the Messianic than the political and economic advantages of taking the Jews back, allowed them to resettle and establish a synagogue (though no formal decree was ever issued...
Stakes in Cairo. Last week, on the tenth anniversary of the formal opening of the bank, President Black was in the midst of a 15,000-mile jaunt to Europe and the Middle East. In London he touched economic bases with Governor of the Bank of England Cameron F. Cob-bold, Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick; in Paris, he chatted with Old Friend Pierre MendesFrance, lunched at the home of Bank of France Governor Wilfred Baumgartner. Flying on to Iran, Banker Black talked about accelerating Iran's seven-year...