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...Fine Arts to be added to the President's Cabinet, and Robert Q. Lewis surprising few viewers by denying that he is a comedian. On Omnibus, Composer Leonard Bernstein analysed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and showed, with orchestral help, how Beethoven made repeated false starts and fruitless excursions in composing his masterpiece...
...same long and fruitless story of EDC all over again? On the surface it may have seemed so. But the London Conference, in producing a blueprint to replace EDC, had also produced a determination among France's allies to go ahead with the integration of West Germany whatever the decision in Paris...
Early this year, when his wife became ill in Hong Kong, Huang made his second fruitless appeal for an exit permit. In July, Communist charges at Geneva that the United States was holding four thousand Chinese in this country brought Huang one last hope. In negotiations with the Communists, the United States released fifteen Chinese, among them Sheldon H. T. Liang, ex-Research Fellow at the University. But Huang was not among the chosen...
...USSR will show definite indications of good faith on these issues, the new proposal holds the possibility for actual disarmament gains. But the United States must not be so anxious to find merit in the Soviet plan that it becomes tangled in a web of fruitless argument and delay. Should this happen the hopeful steps made with the "atoms for peace" program will be lost in the storms of debate...
After weeks of fruitless negotiation, 1,200 American pilots belonging to the A.F.L. Air Line Pilots Association went out on strike to protect the long-standing eight-hour rule. The well-paid airmen ($19,000 a year for a first pilot) claimed that the extra flying time was a threat to passenger safety. While its planes were grounded, American scrambled to find space on other airlines and trains for the 20,300 passengers it normally flies daily between 90 terminals on 385 flights. In Manhattan, American President C. R. Smith said that the strike was a clear breach of contract...