Word: heard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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COMMENCEMENTS were busting out all over last week, and many a famous man and woman donned cap and gown for the annual distribution of honorary degrees. Whether actress or general, scholar or former infielder, each heard his praises sung in the rolling rhetoric of the citations accompanying their degrees. For a sampling of this year's academic honors list, see EDUCATION, Kudos...
...York Senator Irving Ives snapped: "For whom were you named?" Junior smirked, crimsoned under his tan, and refused to say.* While his icy-eyed, vigorous father showed every sign of interest in his own undoing before the labor investigating committee. Beck Junior exhibited nothing but slouching boredom as he heard charges that he had been handed some $69,000 as a Teamster organizer, never did a lick of work for his pay, profited $19,500 on the sale of toy trucks to Teamster locals, and received more than $5,000 in trinkets-cameras, washing machines, etc.-from Teamster Pal Nathan...
Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, who was on his way to his own wedding at nearby Rott-am-Inn when he heard the news on the car radio, rushed to the scene, suspended the battalion and company commanders from duty, appointed a special commission to investigate the case. Then he went on to his wedding (but canceled the parade scheduled in his honor). Chancellor Adenauer expressed his condolences to the dead soldiers' families, and the Bavarian state assembly convened a special session to express its regrets...
Among the progress reports heard at the A.M.A. convention...
...basin," a stream that becomes "a roaring waterfall" and, of course, a large wooden horse. With the creaky stage equipment of the 19th century, the giant workrivaling Wagner's marathons in sizecould not be performed in much less than seven hours. Berlioz himself heard it only in truncated form, and since his death it has never been given a full stage performance in a single evening. Last week Britain's Covent Garden bravely trundled Berlioz huge century-old Trojan horse onto the stage again. To everybody's pleased surprise, it proved...