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...student administration of band seems pleased with the ensemble as it is now planned, because they feel it will lessen Walker's demands on the concert band, and give them a freer hand in running the organization. The big question mark is whether the ensemble will draw too many top players away from the concert group, leaving it musically feeble. This year no one will be allowed the concert group to join the ensemble, but next year no restrictions will restrain them...
...role in the free world-the Administration is already bringing up big guns. Last week Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon pleaded for new trade laws as being "crucial" to the nation's financial health, warned that the U.S. will be the loser if it elects protectionism over freer trade...
...which the American economy constantly provides. But up to a certain limit of tolerance, individual industries and companies should be expected to assume the burden of such adjustments for the good of the economy as a whole." Indeed, Ball insisted, the U.S. has little choice but to move toward freer trade. "We have been the evangelists of the virtues of free competition. We have preached this gospel incessantly to our European friends." Should the U.S. surrender to protectionism, "we would set off a chain reaction of retaliation and counter-retaliation that would do irreparable harm to the whole Free World...
...collection on sale belonged to Mr. and Mrs. Adolphe Juviler of New York and Palm Beach, who explained that they wanted to be freer to travel. Their treasures were a choice, if uneven, selection of modern paintings, sculpture and drawings, and it had both Parke-Bernet's main gallery (white tickets) and TV annex (pink tickets) jammed to overflowing. The bidding was brisk: a curt nod, a quick wave of a pencil, an almost imperceptible gesture with a finger-the secret semaphore of auctioneering-would send the bidding up anywhere from $100 to $5,000. When the auctioneer...
Burton White, a leader of the San Francisco riots against the House Committee on Un-American Activities in May of 1960, last night condemned the House Un-American Activities Committee for "attacking the aspects of society which lead to a freer nation...