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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arab leaders who have most to lose from the French-Algerian war met last week in Rabat, Morocco's Sultan Mohamed V, and Tunisia's Habib Bourguiba, each ruler of a country one year old, had much to talk about, but their main occupation was: how to get peace and order established in Algeria, which lies between them. Both Morocco and Tunisia need money, goods and trained men to stabilize their fledgling countries and, though they had fought hard and bitterly for their independence from France, they knew that their best chance of help lay in friendship with...
...continued to flail the Catholic Church until his death at 80 in 1883), Cornelia enlarged her order. The society spread throughout England, and in her lifetime chapters were opened in France and the U.S., where the society now runs 36 schools, including Rosemont College on Philadelphia's Main Line. In 1879, at 70, Cornelia Connelly died, leaving for church investigators now weighing claims for her sainthood a revealing passage written before she became a postulant: "It is for the glory of God that we should be saints . . . God wills me to be a saint. I will...
...heart of Chicago's Fort Dearborn project, a 150-acre slum-clearance development on the main northern approach to the Loop, city planners decided to build a memorial to Atomic Physicist Enrico Fermi, who achieved the first controlled nuclear chain reaction, on a squash court under the stands of the University of Chicago's Stagg Field. When an international architectural competition was launched, 355 entrants from 25 countries submitted their designs. Last week the jury awarded first prize and $5,000 to Architect Reginald Caywood Knight, 35, of M.I.T.'s department of architecture...
...Alan Hovhaness' Easter Cantata got its first New York concert performance by the National Orchestral Association under Guest Conductor Newell Jenkins. Mystically described by Armenian-descended Composer Hovhaness ("The vocal element ... is the sun; the other sounds are the planets"), the work moved with melodic simplicity, derived its main effects from the repetitive. Oriental-sounding accompaniment which has helped to distinguish Hovhaness' output from more technique-tortured works of his contemporaries. ¶J Italian Composer Riccardo Malipiero's 45-minute Sinfonia Cantata was premiered on the same program. A musical evocation of America, the work draws...
...cups. Then come the cattle drive, the big stampede, the solemn walk through the swinging doors, the bang-bang-bang that puts the audience out of its misery. Somewhere along the line this picture even manages to ring in a Swede who says, "By yumpin' yiminy!" In the main role Actor Ladd has achieved a certain originality: he has managed to break the strong, silent typecast he has so long been set in. In The Big Land he plays the weak, silent type. At 5 ft. 7 in. and 145 lbs., Ladd has always sat fairly small...