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...Hamstrung as he is by lack of money, Rudi Bing thinks that the most he can do is "to try to build up the stock repertory in a contemporary way." Says he: "I think we must do away with 40-year-old productions even if they were great in their day." He believes that "new productions must not be thought of as a luxury that one may indulge in if one happens to strike a gold mine. New productions are as important to have as singers and an orchestra. I may want eight and get only four, but I cannot...
...denied an adequate supply of pound animals to researchers, and work was slowed in some of the most advanced research-much of it (for the Atomic Energy Commission) into the effects of radiation. Dr. Harry Goldblatt, who was shot at in 1948 by a fanatic dog-lover, was also hamstrung in his efforts to develop an artificial heart-lung apparatus...
...delegate from Soviet Russia, by using his veto power. For this reason, the U.S. last fortnight decided to put the question of Korea's future before the U.N. Assembly when it meets at Flushing in mid-September. Last week the word at Flushing was that the Assembly, not hamstrung by the veto, would probably recommend that the U.N. army in Korea 1) push beyond the 38th parallel, and 2) establish a unified regime for all Korea, under U.N. supervision...
Slow Start. Packard has been in trouble a long while. In the postwar auto race, the company was plagued by reconversion delays. Its first all-new postwar car was planned for August 1946, but the company was so hamstrung by production problems that dealers did not get the cars in quantity until September 1947-and they were not eye-catchers. But Packard kept on making them long after sales started to slip...
...outfit, which had been trapped in the Philippines on Pearl Harbor Day. In all their operations the U.S. planes were hampered by lack of advanced bases and air-ground communication with the South Korean army. And for the first three days after they entered the fight, U.S. fliers were hamstrung by a Washington order to strike only at the airfields south of the 38th parallel. That meant that they could not get at the source of North Korean air power...