Word: note
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This venerable institution is as arcane as the balance of payments; its rules are as precisely obscure as the contents of a diplomatic note. To the outsider it presents a blank wall, but to the insider--and the insiders number several thousand government officials, 1200 Washington reporters and numberless foreign governments--a working knowledge of the ways of the informed source adds zest to the reading of the daily newspaper...
...your excellent story you failed to note that the new psychedelic, STP, was named after the effects it produces-serenity, tranquillity, and peace...
According to FCC calculations, the company was enjoying more than an 8.5% return on investment, too rich a feast for a public utility. A more reasonable income, said the commission, would be 7% to 7.5%. To A.T. & T.'s insistence that 8% was needed, the FCC replied: "We note from the record that no regulatory agency has ever, in a formal proceeding, approved a rate of return at or even approximating this level for any electric or telephone utility...
...prominent Presbyterian layman stated publicly that if Presbyterian ministers didn't stop what he called their "socialism," that laymen would stop contributing funds. The layman was reported to have given one million dollars to a right wing organization to make his point. But printed was a public note to the gentleman saying "The Presbyterian Church is not for sale...
...present production does not keep us in doubt for long. Before the performance even begins we see a huge golden lion-rampant hanging in front of a blue cyclorama -- the lion being a traditional symbol of gold, and gold having long been termed "the lion of metals." Underneath we note part of two arched Venetian foot-bridges, both of gold. A short masque takes place on stage, but we are put somewhat ill-at-ease by the dissonant musical score provided by Richard Peaslee (a far cry from the pleasant harmonies Virgil Thomson composed for the Festival's Merchant...