Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next Monday the American Ambassador to Yugoslavia is flying to London to discuss the "Tito Question" with the European Command of the State Department. Out of these talks should come a major decision on future American policy in Europe. Is the West content to maintain the status quo with Russia, or should it attempt to push the border back by encouraging unorthodoxy and nationalism among non-Russian communists? The U. S. is already committed to a $20,000,000 loan to Tito. The subject now is how much more help--if any--should be sent. In making up its mind...
...pencil and paper, we intend to keep at the problem." Space Suit. With pencil, paper and soaring imagination, Britain's rocketeers are not afraid to tackle any of the problems of space travel. On exhibition at the technical institute of St. Martin's School of Art, London, is a carefully designed (on paper) rocket for carrying a man 180 miles up and bringing him back on a parachute. The designers, Harry E. Roses, production superintendent of Electronic Tubes Ltd., and R. A. Smith, of the government's rocket development center at Westcott, are planning for flights higher...
...invaded, and conquered, by ballet. Last week, 65 young British lads and lassies had bundled into two B.O.A.C. planes, bound for New York. The girls, uniformly pretty, were outfitted in the latest British fashion, in the forlorn hope that dollar-heavy dowagers in the U.S. might be persuaded that London, as well as Paris, can turn out smart women's clothes. But the major part of their mission was far from forlorn. This week, socialites, diplomats and balletomanes were flocking to the Metropolitan Opera House to see them. Even at $9.60 top, not a seat was empty...
...British had only gotten around to creating a national company after Diaghilev's death (1929), though ballet had been a London rage since the 18th Century. Under the stern direction of a tiny Irish-born former Diaghilev dancer named Ninette de Valois, they had modeled their company after the classical Russian patterns. But in 20 years, it had become as British as meat...
...four weeks to come, Met-goers would get to see eleven more ballets made in England. And before the Sadler's Wells troupe went back to London, eight other U.S. and Canadian cities would get to see them...