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...name originated in honor of John Kennedy, whose Trade Expansion Act gave impetus to the "round," which is only one in a series of trade talks in recent years...
There are definite compensations, however. In less than two hours, there are 21 musical numbers of what is generally a first-rate score. Each of the numbers captures one particular emotion in both music and lyrics, and derives its impetus from the immediate context. Several Harlem playground songs, infectiously rendered by leading man Sammy Davis and two boys, lead into a dialogue accented by carousel music. Then, in "There's a Party Going On," rhythmically built upon the carousel setting and physically sung in the playground of his youth, Davis dreams his specious adult dreams of the world outside that...
...trade, but it began with the style and promise of a shotgun wedding. As 300 delegates from 66 nations gathered in Geneva last week for the long-awaited trade talks under the General Agreement on Tariff and Trade (GATT)- labeled the Kennedy Round because the late President gave them impetus -the air was heavy with torpor and reluctance. After more than a year of preliminary parleys that tried to lay a groundwork on which the conference could proceed, all the delegates had really agreed on was that they still have monumental disagreements to over come. GATT Executive Secretary Eric Wyndham...
Governor Endicott Peabody '42 will sign a proclamation today in the State House declaring next week "John F. Kennedy Memorial Library Week." The action is designed to add impetus to the Library Fund Drive, which has collected almost $6 million of its $10 million goal...
...marry her Spaniard, Prince Carlos de Borbón y Parma, 34, "in Rome on neutral territory, thus avoiding any accusations of political intention." Irene's mother, Queen Juliana, nonetheless announced that neither she nor any of the royal family would attend the wedding for fear of lending impetus to Carlos' bid for the currently nonexistent Spanish throne. Nothing daunted, Carlos' family moved the ceremony from a chapel to a larger church to accommodate an expected 500 guests. But it looked like the royal top shots, including his uncle, Prince Felix, husband of Luxembourg's Grand...