Word: low
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after the vote, in pointed reference to his liberal colleagues: "We didn't kid anybody but ourselves." Next day the Senate Banking and Currency Committee approved a substitute, trimmed-down housing bill of $1,050,000,000-$240 million above the amount recommended by President Eisenhower, but perhaps low enough to avoid another veto...
...missile-making Hughes-Aircraft Co. But when he talks, his voice is that of someone else: an oldtime Wagnerian "black bass," echoing with rare depth and timbre. Executive Oliver's voice is so unusual, in fact, that when Composer Igor Stravinsky first heard him, he added a specially low voice role to his last great work and asked Oliver to sing...
...year (TIME, Oct. 6), Stravinsky got his wish. The composer's Threni, id est Lamentationes ]eremiae Prophetae (i.e., Threnody, Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah) is a complex, 33-minute work for six vocal soloists, chorus and full orchestra, and the bass part, ranging from middle B-flat to low E-flat, is the most difficult of all. At Venice, says Conductor Robert Craft, who rehearsed Threni's chorus, the starring role should have been the tenor, "but there was no question that Oliver ran away with all the honors." Last week music lovers could hear for themselves what...
...last week announced that it would license the Navy's Military Sea Transportation Service to dump waste material-imbedded in concrete and steel containers-at selected points in both the Pacific and the Atlantic. The oceans are used only for low-energy leftovers-radioactive rubber gloves, mops, rags, discarded lab equipment-but over the years an impressive amount of stuff has been dumped. MSTS joins the Coast Guard, other Navy units and seven private firms in the atomic garbage business; the others have already dumped some 30,000 steel and concrete packages into the Atlantic, and 24,000 into...
...jets), cotton (buyers are holding back for a price cut expected later this year), coal (Europe has a big surplus). Dropping also are exports of machinery and steel, cars and oil, for the same reasons that U.S. imports of them are steaming up: the foreign products are plentiful, low in price and of good quality. Comparing the first halves of 1958 and 1959, U.S. imports of electrical apparatus, electronics parts and transistor radios went up from $72 million to $96 million, imports of industrial machinery from $89 million to $115 million, iron and steel products from $93 million...