Word: noted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dulles conferred for 2½ hours with foreign-policy experts of the Truman Administration, e.g., former Army Secretary Frank Pace Jr. and onetime State Department Policy Planner Paul H. Nitze. Subject of the meeting: plans for the Western heads-of-government meeting at the December NATO conference in Paris. Note of anxiety in the new planning: the U.S. will have a workable intermediate-range ballistic missile well before it has an intercontinental ballistic missile, hence will need all the overseas bases it now uses for airpower, plus any more...
...ministry to receive the message that the cyclist was out of danger. Friends broke into his flat, found him sitting at his desk, dead. There was a bullet wound in his temple; by his side, letters to the police and Ben-Gurion. "To my deep regret." said the note to the police, "I cannot bear living in the circumstances which have occurred. I imagine I have some friends who will be sorry for what I am going to do. I beg them not to be angry. I am not worthy to be mourned." The note directed that all his money...
...Renoir's sunny landscape La Serre, expected to bring between $120,000 and $140,000, which went to Manhattan's Rosenberg & Stiebel for an even $200,000. The dealer refused to say for whom he was bidding. But sharp-eyed reporters could hardly fail to note the jubilation of Henry Ford 11 and his wife when the painting was knocked down, or miss Mrs. Ford's breathless "thank you" to her husband...
Galbraith interjected one dissonant note into the harmonious session by criticizing Stevenson's plan for reorganizing the Pentagon into bureaus. Galbraith termed all such efficiency schemes "escapism," but was countered by Bundy, who declared that "we must try to do the things we have to do efficiently; better spending of the money we have will make it go farther...
...four, in 1929, she gave her first concert. While rehearsing for it, she asked her father what would happen if she made a mistake. He told her that people would be there ready to let fly with rotten eggs and vegetables, demonstrated when she missed a note by throwing a ripe tomato at her. Ruth played brilliantly, had critics raving. "Not since Mozart . ." one began...