Word: holdes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...workers'-council representative. But the most serious disturbances were at Miskolc, near the Czech border. Following a raid by Freedom Fighters who came down from the Bukk Mountains and de stroyed a Communist newspaper plant, Soviet soldiers retaliated by setting fire to a theater in which workers were holding a strike meeting. Later the Freedom Fighters descended from the hills again, fought a pitched battle with the Soviet soldiers and drove them out of part of the city which the rebels continued to hold. In the provincial areas there were increasing reports of Soviet soldiers deserting, joining the rebels...
...Sordello tells it, Callas grabbed him and whispered loudly: "Don't hold that note!" He held on for dear life. In the in termission. Callas told him: "You will never sing with me again." Then she canceled her next performance of Lucia, to put pressure on Manager Rudolf Bing to fire Sordello-or so Sordello says. Her failure to appear in Lucia caused a near riot of disappointed ticket holders who had to be quieted by the cops. And two days later, Sordello got a registered letter from Manager Bing dismissing him from the Met. "Miss Callas," Sordello summed...
Callas agrees that Sordello did indeed hold the high note, and that during intermission she told him "it wasn't a nice thing to do." To which, said Diva Callas, he replied: " I am going to kill you'-meaning vocally, of course." She did not even mention the matter to Manager Bing, and canceled her performance because of a throat irritation. Harassed Manager Bing, firmly siding with Diva Callas, said Sordello had been fired solely because he had added extra embellishments and showy high notes to his part in Lucia, and, when reprimanded, had been "impertinent" to Conductor...
City Councilman Alfred E. Vellucci warned tonight that "If Harvard doesn't put a new parking program into effect, I'm going to hold up all of its new construction," at a dinner of the Freshman Intramural Debate Council, in the Union...
...Friends of Harvard Track will be honored with a special preview of this year's teams this evening as the varsity, freshmen, and several members of the B.C. and B.U. track teams hold an informal intrasquad time trial in Briggs Cage. The weight events will begin at 6:30, with the first running event scheduled...