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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Ballet Theater first bounced on the scene 15 years ago, it called itself "a museum of the dance." The label was meant to indicate that all styles, old and new, would be on exhibit. Over the years, the lively museum gave U.S. ballet a new turn: it kicked new life into the mummified remains of classical ballet (which it performed with loving care) and pioneered an electric, freshly dramatic modern style. Last week, to wind up its15th anniversary celebration, Ballet Theater gathered its stars and most famous graduates, moved into Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House for a three...
...endorsement. Then there is the Negro problem: in 1948 Happy's newspaper, the Woodford Sun, endorsed Strom Thurmond for the presidency. Happy blames his editor for the endorsement and invokes the shade of Jackie Robinson ("I put him in business") with every Negro he meets. But the Dixiecrat label sticks, and the Negro voters are far from Happy...
Unlike Fifth Amendment users, professors employing boycott measures to prevent inroads on academic freedom by other institutions avoid the leftist label, and embarrassment both to themselves and to their own universities. The actions of Miller and his colleagues--whose records have never been associated with the word "communism"--have had great force in showing the public, as well as University of Washington administrators, in what contempt the thoughtful academic community holds the Oppenheimer...
Through the '20s and '30s, no fewer than 45 new business machines appeared under the new IBM label. While other companies cut payrolls through the Depression, Watson refused to lay off men. IBM stored away what it could not sell, against better days. In 1933 Watson bought up Electromatic Typewriters, Inc., a Rochester (N.Y.) firm which had the first completely electric typewriter, and put the first such mass-produced machine into U.S. business offices...
...living person about the conference, insists that there are "serious inaccuracies" in the records as published. The Yalta meeting was wrenched out of its time sequence for publication, leaving the records of earlier conferences, of equal historical significance, to simmer in the Department's files under a "top secret" label...