Word: hear
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Minutes after Steelworkers' President Dave McDonald and U.S. Steel Vice President John A. Stephens flagged an end to the 27-day steel strike one day last week, reporters were called into their negotiating room in Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel to hear the news. Said McDonald: no "battle" had been involved in the on-and-off-again negotiations. "This has not been a class struggle. We are just partners who tried to arrive at an understanding...
...rights blocked off for the duration of the 84th Congress and postponed, in effect, for the 85th. "I merely say," Georgia's Dick Russell summed up the prospects for civil rights in the 85th, "that when such nefarious schemes as these are presented in the future-and we hear that they will be-there will be members of the Senate who will resort to every weapon at their command to prevent such proposals being imposed on the people...
Paying a Debt. "They're suspicious of us culturally." he says, referring to people he met on his recent ANTA tour of the Far East. "But at the same time they're pathetically anxious to hear what we have to offer." In Japan in particular. Istomin found, audiences were attracted by the openness and spontaneity of Western music...
...done, Managing Editor Turner Catledge sent off a brief "well done" to his staff. To hear him tell it, the old Times was not even breathing hard. Said he, with a mile-wide grin: "Hell, that's what the news is-an emergency. Why, we look at this as pretty much routine...
Students at Tanglewood this weekend--the next to last one of the season--will have the chance to hear works by Barraud, Falla, Ravel, and Stravinsky on Friday and by Moevs, Mozart, and Prokofieff Saturday evening. The Sunday concert will feature Copland's Symphonic Ode, Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto with Zino Francescatti as soloist, and Schumann's Symphony No. 2, in C major. Conductors will be Eleazor de Carvalho Friday, Leonard Bernstein Saturday, and Charles Munch Sunday...