Word: important
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While seeming to throttle stage & screen with one hand, television is generously offering help with the other. On Broadway last week, theatergoers and critics gave a modest approval to a TV import: Horton Foote's new play, The Trip to Bountiful, starring Lillian Gish (see THEATER). Last March millions of televiewers saw an hour-long version of the same play, with all but two of the same cast, on the Goodyear-Philco TV Playhouse. Robert Howard Lindsay's The Chess Game, seen in February on the Kraft TV Theater, is scheduled for a Broadway opening later this season...
...desks will be full-sized, single-pedestal models, replacing worn ones now in use, and the present "victory" desks, small, drawerless relies of wartime import. It has not yet been decided whether they will be of wood, metal, or a combination...
...delegation predicted "a marked reduction" in U.S. economic aid next year. As if to prove their growing self-confidence, the Europeans accepted it without a dissenting murmur. The Europeans, however, are nervously waiting to see whether the Eisenhower Administration will cut import duties or raise them. They expect no real answer until next March, when the Randall Commission, appointed by President Eisenhower to recommend changes in U.S. tariffs, makes its report. ¶Italy's Premier Giuseppe Pella complained that OEEC works to Italy's detriment because it does nothing to help solve the problem...
Cahaly's love of Syrian music flows from his childhood in Damascus. He was brought up in a parochial school with a mere 66 hours a week of classes and later worked for a leading import export firm of the city. He came to the United States to go to college, but instead opened a store in South Carolina and began adding English to his fluent French, Arabic and Turkish. After serving in the First World War, he went back to Damascus, and later returned to Boston with his family. Twenty-five years ago yesterday, he moved to Harvard Square...
...logic can only lead to the argument that the U.S. should not expect to export to other countries any more than it is willing to import from them . . . That is all that the "trade, not aid" contention is. DAVID G. PHILLIPS