Word: noted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, from the British Foreign Ministry to the U.S. State Department, came a note of protest against the U.S. refusal to accept the bid by the English Electric Co. Ltd. on six generators and three transformers for the Chief Joseph project. The company spent some $60,000 to prepare its bid. It was the lowest received and it met specifications. Under ordinary circumstances, Defense Secretary Charles Wilson would have been required to accept the British bid. English Electric's offer was 16% ($964,000) below that of the lowest U.S. bidder, and U.S. purchasing officers must generally award...
From the first note the audience was captivated by music and action. The plot: Idomeneo, King of Crete, cannot face the terrible duty of sacrificing his own son to appease the sea god Poseidon, and decides to spirit him away. But the young man doubles Poseidon's wrath by slaying one of his sea monsters, and Idomeneo realizes that he must go ahead with the sacrifice. When the boy's faithful sweetheart Ilia insists on dying with him, the god relents, and the ending is happy. After the two-hour performance, the audience applauded for 15 solid minutes...
...passing," says Williams, "it is perhaps in order to make another comment on the Pennsylvania Note. The writer of that Note condemns the dismissal of a Government employee for invocation of the amendment in investigations involving loyalty on the ground that invocation has not established disloyalty. This argument, like others arguing against action based upon invocation of the privilege, overlooks the fact that silence in the face of a suggestion of given conduct constitutes in itself evidence of that conduct. It is true that the silence is permitted by the amendment, but that fact in no way detracts from...
...only ones which can be used?" A Lancashire correspondent had a pointed argument for the other side: "St. Augustine told Bishop Julian that if he refused to baptize children the men would spit in his face and the women would throw their sandals at his head. Take note that women are wearing sandals again...
...with the war and the arrival of U.S. forces came a deluge of 50-gallon oil drums, and some inventive fellows discovered a way to make them into musical instruments. They divided the heads into pie-shaped segments, peened them until each segment gave on': a separate musical note when struck with padded sticks. For "bass booms" the drums were left full length, for baritones they were, chopped in half, for the "tenor pans" they were sliced thin. Then half a dozen Trinidadians foregathered, added maracas and woodblock players, and they had a "steel band." Trinidad alone now supports...