Word: magic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This is the great spellbinder," said Michigan's Governor "Soapy" Williams as he defended United Auto Workers' President Walter Philip Reuther to a U.A.W. national convention in Detroit last week. But this time Reuther wove no spell of oratorical magic. What he did do was get 3,200 U.A.W. delegates to approve his 1958 set of demands for the auto industry's contract negotiations opening early in April. Items as approved...
Like Alice, U.S. motorists, whose lot it is to dodge potholes, fight traffic jams and search for nonexistent parking spaces, last week.won a privileged peek through their rearview mirrors into a magic world of wheels where things obviously go the other way. Home again in Madras, India (pop. 1,500.000) after a 50-day tour of Washington. D.C., New York City, Los Angeles and eleven other U.S. cities. Captain Dinakar Gnanaolivu. chairman of the Madras City Improvement Trust, summed up his impressions of U.S. traffic in Madras' daily Hindu...
...Marschallin's words, she is still the same. In a dozen "master classes" last fall, retired Soprano Lehmann coached 30 students from London's Opera School and young professionals from the Royal Opera House. The Rosenkavalier classes-tape-recorded and now broadcast over BBC-displayed her old magic and the extraordinary musical intelligence that helped make Lotte Lehmann one of the great singers of her time...
Rock with Puck. The subtle magic of such numbers sends squealing British teen-agers catapulting through plate-glass windows in pursuit of Tommy, has produced a rash of Tommy Steele autographs on teen-age backs and legs. It also sells Tommy Steele belts, blouses and underwear by the hundreds of thousands, and moves Bloomsbury parlor psychologists to long, long thoughts. Wrote Novelist Colin Maclnnes in the highbrow monthly Encounter: "The most striking feature of Tommy's performance is that it is both animally sensual and innocent, pure. He is Pan, he is Puck ... he is every mother...
...Egyptians created gigantic scientific instruments for measuring the solar year, building their sides trued to the four cardinal directions. Using the Egyptian year, Julius Caesar in 45 B.C. made the Julian calendar standard throughout the Roman world. To these scientific measurements, later calendar makers added an overburden of myth, magic and homely folklore with advice so complete that even the best day for cutting nails and hair was indicated...