Word: halt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which he has been. He is exuberantly gregarious, unsophisticated and, on the surface at least, totally untempera-mental. Former Cincinnati Symphony Conductor Thor Johnson recalls that once, in an orchestral tutti during the rehearsal of a concerto, Van rose from the keyboard and walked out. "I called a halt to the music," says Johnson, "and wondered what we could have done to upset the kid." Just then Van looked back over his shoulder from the wings and drawled: "Go right ahead. Ah'm just goin' to the slot machine for a candy bar." He can be considerate...
...basis of the Government's anxiousness for top-level negotiation is a vague faith in the Kremlin's desire to reduce world tension and halt the armaments race. But this faith appears to be grounded more in hope than in certitude. The Soviet Union's past and recent actions and pronouncements offer little evidence of her good intentions...
Kraft Theater: In an effort to halt the long decline of TV's oldest continuous program, the Kraft Co. last month hired Talent Associates' David Susskind to put on a series of works by topnotch authors (among them: Robert Penn Warren, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway), gave the new executive producer full rein. Susskind's first venture was a package of three one-act plays by Tennessee Williams, written back in the '30s when the grocer called him Tom and the postman brought him rejection slips. Moony...
Speaking informally before the Dunster House Forum, he stated that the economy should "run the risk of a future inflationary upturn" in order to halt the far more dangerous problem of depression. The United States economy, with a potential gross national product of about $450 billion can well support a deficit as high as $10 billion, he asserted...
...officer for the first time in 90 years, the Pabst family increased pressure on Perlstein to bring in a new man to run the company. Perlstein brought in as president Marshall S. Lachner, a vice president of Colgate-Palmolive Co., kept the chairmanship for himself. But Lachner failed to halt Pabst's sliding sales, and in 1956, for the first time in its history, the company showed a loss. Last fall Perlstein got Lachner's resignation, took over as president as well as chairman, began reversing many Lachner policies. One new policy suited Lachner. Perlstein insisted...