Word: notes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ballerina and the male dancer lay side by side on the couch while the music of Wagner's Liebestod thundered out of the pit. First one rolled off the couch, then the other. Gropingly, they each raised a hand, managed to clasp them. On that grotesquely romantic note, the curtain fell last week on one of five works new to the American Ballet Theatre in its fall season at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. The ballet: Herbert Ross's Tristan...
...curt note Moscow rejected the witness-backed U.S. statement that three fighter planes had intercepted an unarmed Air Force C-130 transport and its 17-man crew near the Turkish border on Sept. 2. forced it to fly into Soviet Armenia, where it crashed and burned. Instead, the Russians accused the U.S. of attempting to justify an "intentional violation" of the Soviet border, promised only that the bodies of six crew members found in the wreckage would be returned...
Russia's Nikita Khrushchev fired off a tough-talking note to Dwight Eisenhower. He derided the Seventh Fleet ("In the age of nuclear and rocket weapons . . . these once formidable warships are fit for nothing but courtesy visits and gun salutes . . ."-), and warned: "An attack on the People's Republic of China ... is an attack on the Soviet Union." Ominous as this sounded, it did not escape the attention of the world's statesmen-presumably including Mao-that Khrushchev had chosen to make his gesture of solidarity with Red China only after Washington and Peking had both indicated...
...Globe and Mail renewed its demands to hand over Quemoy, extend diplomatic recognition and welcome the Chinese Communists into the U.N. The Globe and Mail reprinted three editorials in ads in the New York Times, drew a freshet of letters from both sides of the border, including an approving note in the Times from John Carter Vincent, left-leaning onetime U.S. diplomat who was fired from the State Department...
...final, practical note of Enright's refusal to advance his protege any more cash, the tape runs...