Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...between there are Hiss' interpretations of the hearings, trials, and fruitless appeals. He selects the testimony he discusses with great care to prove to the world that Whittaker Chambers lied about Alger Hiss. He blames his jail term on a succession of misfortues--a bad political climate. an irresponsible grand jury; an inefficient second judge (Henry W. Goddard); an unscrupulous prosecutor (Thomas Murphy); and a poor Court of Appeals judge (Harrie B. Chase...
Frank Costello is now serving a thirty day stretch in the Workhouse for contempt of court. With good behavior, he will be back in court after twenty-five days to be asked the same embarrassing questions by the same grand jury. If he again invokes the Fifth Amendment, he may be sent back to the Workhouse for another thirty. For a man with homes on Central Park West and Sands Point, Long Island, this can be very depressing...
This intrigued the police and the grand jury investigating the attempted assassination. Claiming that if he answered questions about the paper he would incriminate himself (he is now appealing a five year sentence for income tax evasion), Costello remained silent...
...nine singers were gathered in the rehearsal studio (each one had brought a score and paid 50? for the studio's weekly rental). "Straight through, and this time it will be very good," said Conductor Allers, and then he pounded out the famous score on a battered concert grand. Sight-reading their roles, the singers followed him with voices that were strong, skilled and supple. Allers lifted an occasional finger to cue a singer, threw out an occasional comment ("We all know we can sing very loud; now let's see if we can put it together...
...grand finale to its angry campaign against President Eisenhower's $71.8 billion budget, the Chamber of Commerce last week staged the loudest protest yet at its 45th annual meeting in Washington. There, before 4,200 delegates, the Chamber cried for a cut of $5 billion in the overall total. Training its heaviest fire on the $38 billion defense bill, which it wants reduced by $1.5 billion, the Chamber said that the idea that "all defense expenditures are essential to national security and are therefore untouchable" is a "myth...