Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Like clockwork he had followed a normally busy schedule: a National Security Council meeting, lunch at his desk with Presidential Science Adviser James Killian, a conference with Defense Secretary Neil McElroy, a briefing on progress of the Air Force's nuclear powered airplane, a dinner party at the Metropolitan Club, and an Air Force concert at the Lisner Auditorium. But Quarles's death was more upsetting for its effect on the Pentagon. After two years as Defense Secretary, Neil McElroy planned to return to Cincinnati and Procter & Gamble in the fall (TIME, March 16). Topping the list...
...yards), there has been little recognition until the last few years that "good-will" gestures to the rest of the Cambridge community might be as important to the College as any physical bargaining. Few but the professional planners have recognized the implications of the College's existence in a metropolitan community...
...Giselle, the famous role that she danced for the first time 27 years ago, Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova last week at the Metropolitan Opera House showed why, at 49, she is the world's greatest ballerina. Even to an audience already keyed to a series of Bolshoi successes, the evening was a triumph-and Ulanova's performance a genuine masterpiece of the theater...
...indoor high-jump record is officially held by a Boston University freshman named John Thomas, who last month propelled himself 7 ft. 1¾ in. into space. Unofficially, it is held by the members of the Bolshoi Ballet, who last week bounded about the stage of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House like a herd of nail-tailed wallabies. In the second week of their eight-week U.S. visit, the Russian dancers proved that they can leap higher, farther and more daringly than anything north of Australia. More important, in some dazzling performances of Swan Lake, they gave Manhattan audiences...
Chicago's Art Institute, the third most important museum in the U.S. (after Manhattan's Metropolitan and Washington's National Gallery), has a new director: owlish John Maxon, 42, who made his reputation for lively exhibitions and museum-community cooperation as director of the comparatively tiny museum of the Rhode Island School of Design...