Word: minore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks before the presidential election, Fanfani and Scelba had been conferring with the three minor parties of the coalition to decide who should succeed Luigi Einaudi, a Liberal, as President. Einaudi is widely respected, but he is 81, and many disliked setting a precedent of a second seven-year term. Scelba declared the candidate should not be a Christian Democrat. The Liberals. Social Democrats and Scelba's own faction in the Christian Democrats were willing to support Einaudi. Fanfani was not. At an eleventh-hour meeting before the Deputies and Senators gathered in Rome's big Montecitorio Palace...
...further cause of shifting has been probation, which has claimed three, and minor injuries which have benched three of Pickett's strong players...
Tunisia, poorest of France's three North African territories, is a land where 250,000 Europeans seek to preserve their privileged status in a land of 3,000,000 Arabs. By last week the points at issue between the two sides had narrowed down to two minor ones: the French insisted on equal French representation in the municipal governments of five towns, and that the Tunisians were unwilling to grant; and the French wanted military control of the Libyan frontier (to prevent Arab infiltrators coming in from the east), and that Premier Ben Amar was unwilling to yield. Faure...
...line of straight entertainment The New Theatre Workshop scored a minor triumph Thursday with its presentation of Gregory Corso's In This Hung-up Age. That the author cannot take any credit for originality of situation--six passengers and Beauty stranded on a brokendown bus in the middle of the desert--is no drawback in this case. The language of his characters is fast, vigorous, and funny, and the denouement is grotesquely original. In the cast, Fred Mueller as the Apache, Harry Bingham as the Hipster, James Rieger as the Poetman, and Earle Edgerton as the Tourist are superb caricatures...
Conductor Charles Munch signals congratulations to the Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society with a smile of satisfaction after the University group had completed its fourth and final performance of the Bach B Minor Mass with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall last night. A near-capacity audience summoned Munch back to the platform four times after the final part of the Mass. The series of four performances was the first presentation of the Mass in a regular subscription concert. The Glee Club and Choral Society will sing the work again at Tanglewood in Lenox, Mass., this summer...