Word: fs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more-than-esthetic interest in Miss Munsel. Eight years ago, listening at his radio one afternoon to the Met Auditions of the Air, he heard 17-year-old Patrice singing coloratura arpeggios in a voice as full of rills as a country brook, and lustily topping off high Fs. It was not the greatest voice he had ever heard, but coloraturas were scarce, particularly with Lily Pons, the Met's coloratura queen, making herself scarcer on wartime tours. Hurok went to see Patrice, and liked what he saw-a confident, warm-eyed girl with black, wavy hair...
...Physical standards will be lowered, making eligible 150,000 now considered 4-Fs...
...Moskòfs Know. The Turks are solidly behind the government's decision to join U.N. forces in Korea. Inönü's party did not oppose so popular a move, but was considerably piqued at not being consulted, so as to gain some of the credit. It declared that had it been running the government, it would have got some concessions from the U.S. before committing troops. Prime Minister Menderes loftily said that he would not quibble with the U.S. and the U.N. on so critical a matter. "I'd decide the same...
Having fought the Russians (whom they call the moskòfs) 13 times in the past 400 years and with a half-million men now under arms, the Turks are undismayed at their exposed position on Soviet Russia's southern flank. They are glad the world is beginning to realize that they have not lost their ancient talent for fighting. The news of spectacular Turkish feats in Korea did not amaze Tahir Atar, a villager from Mengen in central Anatolia. Said he last week: "We knew what our kids could accomplish, but our friends, the Americans, didn...
...vote-conscious efforts to put off the 18-year-old draft as long as possible, the subcommittee had swung to Chairman Johnson's idea of writing priority into the legislation: 1) 100,000 reclaimed 4-Fs and about 290,000 married men between 19 and 26 with no previous military service; 2) 18-year-olds approaching 19; and 3) the rest of the 18-year-olds. Shouldn't those husbands be drafted, Eisenhower was asked...