Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mintz noted that the bill leading to the planning of an art center provided for $5 million to be spent on "recreation," and he raised the question, "Is an art center recreation?" He also pointed out that the lease, which would pre-empt the long-established Met Harness Track, does not delineate the exact site of the proposed theatre, leaving a possible means to open further discussion of MeBAC...
...last week's heated MDC session that approved the founding of the new center, amendments proposed by the two men to submit the plan to the Attorney General for examination, to give local groups voting power, and to insure the non-profit character of the enterprise met with defeat...
...blue denim prison jacket, Sosa Blanco grinned at the crowd. He raised his manacled hands, postured like the villain of a rigged wrestling match. The mob yelled, "Kill him! Kill him!" "This is the Colosseum in Rome," jeered Sosa Blanco, when he got a turn at the microphone. "I met brave rebels in the mountains, not types like you here. All you do is talk...
...Broadway last week, spokesmen for the U.S. theater were singing the blues about life on the road. Whether in Bridgeport or Ashtabula, St. Joe or Altoona, so few citizens west of the Main Stem are paying to see touring shows that a conference of theater operators met in Manhattan to search for a way to boost show business in the sticks, or, as Variety might say, to look for trix to fix stix...
...annual reading of the U.S. economy, the National Industrial Conference Board last week assembled business leaders at "Manhattan's Hotel Commodore. Their theme: "Recovery: how strong, how long?" Their conclusion: recovery should continue well into 1959. Even as they met, there were indications that while some parts of the economy have stopped to catch their breath, others continued to spring along in a sort of relay race...