Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three days last week the President met with Mexico's President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines and Canada's Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent amid such scenes of studied informality and good neighborliness. The meeting was held not in Washington but in White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., a watering place set amid the Alleghenies. There was no agenda, little protocol. A U.S. participant described one session of the talks...
Just 20 years ago, the Metropolitan Opera Guild, deciding that it needed a news sheet for its 1,200 members, appointed a brisk little lady named Mrs. John DeWitt Peltz to put it together. The weekly Opera News got under way with no cooperation from the Met, which, even more than it does today, liked to keep its future plans a secret, but the paper chatted about new productions for each week of the Met's then 14-week season, and it survived. Then, through the Saturday afternoon broadcasts, the Guild went on a national basis, soon found itself...
...first time, Greeks and Turks fell to major fighting. On Kathara Theftera (first day of Lent in the Greek Orthodox calendar), well-wined Greek Cypriots met up with Turkish Cypriots in the village of Vasilia, staged a free-for-all which injured 21 people. Fearful of demonstrations on Greece's issth Day of Independence, Field Marshal Harding put the main towns of the island under curfew for the whole day, i.e., confined 165,000 Cypriot people to their homes. At week's end, while British police were still searching for Neophytos Sophocleous, Sir John Harding discharged his remaining...
...mention of financial difficulties was made at any time," he stated. "We could have met any figure they decided they were worth," he added...
Leaders of the three major faiths and some of the nation's most prominent psychiatrists are taking part in this movement and met in New York yesterday to open the new academy formally. The Rev. George C. Anderson, executive director of the academy, said that planning has been under way about three years...