Word: lating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flood from the South. South Tyrol's 200,000 German-speaking people, subjects of the House of Habsburg for 555 years, never cottoned to the idea that they were Italian. At the end of World War II, the late Italian Premier Alcide de Gasperi* agreed with Austrian Foreign Minister Karl Gruber to give the region autonomy within the Italian Republic, to allow German in the schools and in government offices, if the Austrians would consider the issue closed...
...Will Not Hesitate." Late in January the Central African Federation government began to hear disturbing reports about a secret meeting of Nyasa nationalists in a forest near Blantyre. Within days, the first incidents began-an attack on two white veterinarians, a demonstration in Kotakota that had to be broken up with tear gas, the stoning of European cars in Blantyre. Then one morning in the wooded northern tip of Nyasaland, something far more serious started: a series of apparently coordinated attacks against government airfields and installations...
...industrial management, too, Red China's rulers have underdone by overdoing. In 1958 Peking boasted that the nation's steel production had jumped 100% to a whopping (for Asia) 11 million tons. But late last month came a laconic announcement that construction of all new railway lines planned for 1959 would have to be postponed. The reason: a shortage of steel rails...
...first year, $11,200 by his third year, plus 60% of all recording royalties. For the other 30%, plus 10% agent's fees, he watches over their appearance (longish hair, with an occasional permanent), their manners and morals ("the more they can date the better, but no late nights and no alcohol"). He also works like a sand hog to get them bookings in nightclubs, on TV, and even in straight plays. Says 27-year-old Parnes: "You've got to put the goods in the window...
...great lesser-known works of choral literature is the Requiem of Gabriel Faure. Written near the end of the 19th Century, this hauntingly beautiful score stands apart, almost completely detached from the influences of the late Romantic era. It is a brooding, restless piece, characterized by tentative, unresolved progressions, chromatic exploration, repeated figures, and a limited but unusual harmonic scheme. Above all it illustrates Faure's extremely delicate feeling for both line and texture, his carefully balanced sense of structure and climax...