Word: grand
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TIME'S story on Walter Reuther [June 20] ... is in itself G.A.W. (Grand Award Writing). Chalk up a victory against Communist propaganda, which keeps yowling about the dirty deals capitalists give labor. Chalk up a victory for common sense, which averted a disastrous auto strike. And chalk up a victory for the nation as a whole, because a stabilized wage means a more stabilized economy...
...Years' Change. Cold war has shattered the U.N.'s first foundations (the wartime Grand Alliance), mangled its basic assumption (Big Power unanimity), surrounded it with perils undreamed of by most of its founders (the H-bomb and Communist expansionism). The revolt against colonialism has all but doubled U.N. membership. Yet all these vast transformations, says Dag Hammarskjold, make the U.N., or something like it, not less but more essential. In this unyielding conviction, Hammarskjold believes that the nations are in San Francisco not to bury the U.N., but to reappraise...
...Cincinnati's "Opera at the Zoo'' begins its 34th season this week with Puccini's Tosca, continues to give standard grand operas for the next five weeks. Most of the stars are from the Met and the New York City Opera...
Magnificent Matador (Billy Butterfield; Essex). About as noisy a record as possible, containing an overstimulated chorus chanting, "Matador! Matador!'', a brassy orchestration of the type usually reserved for grand finales, and Ace Trumpeter Butterfield giving his all. From the film of the same name...
COFFEE PRICES are bouncing up again for the first time in nearly a year, after an agreement among South American producers to regulate exports instead of dumping surpluses on the market. A. & P., Safeway and Grand Union have boosted prices 2? to 3? a lb., and other big roasters will probably follow suit...