Word: noted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Elizabeth is visiting their shores as Queen of Canada, and nothing else. For most of them the event is joyful and important. Sudbury, Ont. has been torn for weeks over whether or not the Queen's route should take her past the old people's home. A note of outrage was sounded in the Montreal Gazette when an indignant royalist reader protested against Canada's No. 1 hit song, The Battle of New Orleans, a catchy Tin Pan Alley jape about the rout of the British in the War of 1812: "I do suggest that this song...
...into publicly stating that he had not meant his "proposal" as an ultimatum. As Herter well knew, however, this did not imply an iota of change in Gromyko's stand. And as if to make that clear, the Soviet Foreign Minister for the first time adopted a threatening note over Western insistence that there must be progress at Geneva to justify any summit talks. Said Gromyko: "Should any state put up ... obstacles to a summit meeting, that state will take responsibility for the consequences...
...influential, 1,200-member First Presbyterian Church by writing a magazine article calling for "creative contact" between whites and Negroes in the South-"representation of both groups on city councils, grand juries, school boards, medical societies, ministerial associations and other public agencies." Fortnight ago, he wrote a note in the church bulletin urging parishioners to read without prejudgment an article by a Columbus newspaperman saying how much better the racial situation had become in Columbus...
...things in the beginning-but I've got used to them now." Reminded that once he is entered in New Hampshire, he must either run or positively forbid the use of his name, Rockefeller replied with a broad grin: "I'll have to make a mental note of that...
...when your hands are wobbling, but when your feet start wobbling, too . . ." On that nervous note, the teen-age Bolivian violinist walked onto the stage of the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels to play before the world's toughest violin jury* in the finals of the famed Queen Elisabeth of Belgium International Music Competition. With his boyishly chubby face creased in an intent frown, he fiddled his way through the Sibelius Concerto in D Minor, Bartok's Rumanian Dances, and Darius Milhaud's Royal Concerto. Two days later, the world's most prestigious violin prize...