Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Turkish minority, but he countered with demands for amnesty for terrorists. The British refused, also refused his demands for a time limit when police powers should pass to the Cyprus government. Prime Minister Eden is now convinced that if all the archbishop's demands had been met, "other demands would immediately have been flung up in their place." But, looking back, even many in Britain agree that one short year ago they might have had a settlement (and none of the resultant rancor) by offering what has now been refused...
...Jordanian desert on its pipeline from Iraq to the Mediterranean. At this remote and inhospitable spot, in an air-conditioned concrete resthouse surrounded by nothing but miles of rock and sand, Jordan's young (20) King Hussein and his cousin, Iraq's young (20) King Feisal II, met last week to discuss the future of Jordan...
When he first took office, it looked as if Ike might return to the Hoover pattern. As a candidate, he met the press with plain misgivings, and his election sparked widespread speculation that he might go back to written questions and answers. It took him almost a year to overcome his distaste for the sharp questioning at the conference. Since then, his enjoyment of press conferences-like his skill in handling them-has grown steadily...
...wanted to continue her studies at Manhattan's Juilliard School, but a Juilliard piano teacher told her: "If I had a voice like that I would go into opera-you can always play the piano." Jean took the advice, and eight years later was hired by the Met. Once she sang Carmen from the Met stage, but only in a student matinee. She prepped for the real thing in a succession of out-of-town productions, from Munich, Germany to Pocatello, Idaho. At the Met she moved into many of the important second leads that inevitably fall...
...burst into Carmen's Habanera on the Theater an der Wien stage, she was just an unusually handsome singer from the states. When she finished the song, the house vibrated with ecstatic shouting, and she was a star. One cast member counted 45 curtain calls. The less-demonstrative Met was not so generous last week when the curtain came down (on St. Patrick's Day) on its new Carmen (only about 15 calls), but happy Jean Madeira was serenaded with applause and pelted with green carnations. "I'd be glad to sing Carmen for the rest...