Word: g
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bach Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor Biggs employed at least four different phrasings for the same fugue subject. The Franck Prelude, Fugue and Variation is such a wandering piece that it is no wonder that Biggs lost his place. Perhaps his best playing of the evening came in the Schumann Canon in B Minor, where his crisp short attacks were appropriate...
...expunging the words ELECT ORVILLE E. HODGE, YOUR REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR STATE AUDITOR from a state Republican Party campaign billboard on a main road outside Springfield. In Springfield and Chicago, as the state budgetary commission began a thorough investigation of the state auditor's office, two grand juries, G-men, Internal Revenue men and representatives of half a dozen other county, state and federal agencies were interrogating witnesses, sifting evidence, and painstakingly piecing together a mosaic of one of the biggest financial scandals in Illinois history...
...personal visit." Since the Secretary-General had made a tour of the Middle East less than three months ago, and was not expected to return again until October, something was obviously up. For eight hours he talked with testy Premier David Ben-Gurion. Hammarskjold wanted reassurances that B-G was not about to break the peace. The U.N. mediator had been concerned by B-G's recent threat to U.N. Truce Supervisor Major General Burns to do something drastic if Jordan misbehaved. B-G had shaken a Bible under Burns's nose and quoted Deuteronomy to him: "Thou...
...sawed off, while a Madison Avenue account man leaps out of his grey flannel suit at the first brrr of the drill on a heavily novocained tooth? Does a Chinese feel pain less than an Occidental? Probably not, according to Dr. James D. Hardy, who (with Dr. Harold G. Wolff and Helen Goodell) pioneered in measuring pain on a "dolorimeter" at New York Hospital. Using a lens to focus the heat from an electric bulb onto a blackened area of skin, Dr. Hardy has compared the "pain thresholds" of whites, Alaskan Indians and Eskimos. The Eskimos' readings were...
...balance, the report delivered a verdict against G.M.: "Three years ago the institute defended big business. The utterly irresponsible Ford-G.M. production war has changed our minds." Bigness can "crush the small producer. Bigness is partly responsible for the slow strangling of Studebaker and Hudson today...