Word: noted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the air of men trying to gratify a universal longing rather than expecting dramatic results. Despite all the rustling of policy papers and the wheeling up of agenda, each of the Big Four conferees has his own private misgivings. Russia's stood out starkly in its note of acceptance...
Three of the committee's seven Republicans (New York's Ives, Connecticut's Bush and Maine's Payne) went along with the Democrats' recommendations but appended a note of disagreement on the committee's view of the stock-market rise. The report, said they, gave "insufficient emphasis" for the rise to the confidence that the public has in the Eisenhower Administration...
...Omni-DME installations at U.S. airports and beacon stations, and the sets installed by many private aircraft owners, the new systems have cost an estimated $200 million. Last week the House Commerce Committee, after reviewing the controversy and the still-secret development of Tacan, turned up a shocking note: since 1948 the Navy and Air Force have spent $176 million to develop Tacan, but they candidly admit that it is still full of bugs. And Under Secretary of Commerce Louis Rothschild testified that Tacan is three to ten years from being perfected. Said A.O.P.A.'s Max Karant: "The American...
...There is of course no gratitude in politics," commented the Manchester Guardian. "But it... does seem a little curious that the Tory Party should have dropped Sir Winston . . . absolutely, as if he had become a liability, almost an outcast." Before the week was out, Eden dispatched an amends-seeking note to "the architect of our success . . . the leader under whom I have been so proud to serve." It was one of Eden's few fumbles, and betrayed his felt need to emerge from the shadow as a leader...
...Milan's great La Scala. Italian-born Composer Menotti, who has lived in the U.S. for 27 years, got a real gala-Scala panning from Italian critics. Wrote Rome's Giornale d'Italia: "There is not an idea, not a melody, not a note which is not either closely or distantly attributable to someone else ... If this is what it means to write opera, let's not talk about it any more.'' But the audience enjoyed the show as much as New Yorkers have, called Menotti back for two dozen bows...