Word: mets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Luminaries of the Czechoslovak literary world showed up in droves last week for the Frankfurt Book Fair, and no fewer than five of the nation's top film directors, including Jan Nemec, Milos Forman and Jan Kadar, met at Manhattan's Lincoln Center Film Festival last week and discussed their futures...
...three years running-1962, 1963, 1964-the tall, shapely mezzo sang powerful Carmens in Spoleto, Moscow and at the New York City Opera. But it was the Met that Verrett was aiming for. She declined Rudolf Bing's offer to sing several minor Wagner and Verdi roles. At length, Bing came through with the role she craved...
This is no real surprise, since the two men have been close personal friends since they met two decades ago. Billy has often dined at the Nixon apartment and joined him for occasional rounds of golf. In 1964 Nixon told Billy's biographer that Graham might have made an able President, and he has praised him as "a great student of history with a rare perspective and insight." In a recent interview in Good Housekeeping, Nixon credited Graham's advice as a determining factor in his decision to seek the presidency...
...each allowed only one correspondent in Washington, and the correspondent's activity is largely restricted to reporting the utterances of Georgia's Senators and Congressmen. Patterson and other editors have argued for more money for their staffs and more coverage of the news, but their efforts have met with little success...
...Sources. He has also limited formal votes at meetings. Votes are weighted according to subscriptions in the bank's capital stock; big members have sometimes irritated national pride by outvoting the numerical majority. McNamara met this problem by sounding out key directors before meetings, solving the objections that might prevent unanimous agreement. He has uncovered new sources of loan funds in such oil-rich countries as Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. He is already emphasizing the African and Latin American aid referred to in his speech. Last week the bank and its subsidiary, International Development Association, approved loans or credits...