Word: itemizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Announced, in line with President Eisenhower's determination to help Poland's new government maintain its independence from Russian domination, that at U.S. invitation Warsaw has agreed to send a Polish mission to economic talks in Washington in the near future. Chief item likely to be negotiated: a request by the hard-pressed Gomulka government for a big (at least $100 million) loan to finance the purchase of U.S. surplus agricultural products, farm and mining machinery, fertilizers...
...Third item in this batch of operatic rarities: Arrigo Boïto's Mefistofele, newly recorded by RCA Victor on 2 LPs (with Boris Christoff, Giacinto Prandelli, Orietta Moscucci; Orchestra and Chorus of the Rome Opera conducted by Vittorio Gui). Known chiefly as a poet and mighty librettist (Verdi's Otello and Falstaff), Boïto always remained an interesting oddity as a composer; he premiered his version of Goethe's Faust at La Scala in 1868 only to see it booed off the stage after two performances because of its experimentation with Wagnerian techniques. Intellectually more...
Four years ago today, the CRIMSON printed a small item on page on headlined "Brattle to Show Foreign Films." The story said, tersely, "Cambridge's foreign language film theatre opens on Brattle St. tonight. The new Brattle Movie House replaces the Brattle Theatre, which closed six weeks ago. Bryant N. Haliday '49, General Manager, added, however, that he still hopes to bring summer stock to the Brattle...
...solution, say the independents, would be for Europe to import U.S. refined products instead of crude oil. They point out, for example, that U.S. gasoline stocks are at a record 193 million bbls. But European nations have good reasons for not wanting refined products. Gasoline is the least critical item in their oil inventories, and the importation of high-cost refined oil would not only reduce their dollar balances but force layoffs in their own refineries...
...Paterson, N.J., the News printed an ad: "My wife, Anna De Marco, having left my bed & board, I will no longer be responsible for any debts contracted by her on or after Jan. 15, 1957-Alphonse De Marco," two days later printed another: "Alphonse De Marco, having read your item in the paper, I feel it my responsibility to let you know you never did pay my debts or the support of my children or I, so there's no need to worry about any bills now-Anna De Marco...