Word: notes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PERHAPS on some desk in the Kremlin a date on a calendar was marked with a note, "Nixon in Peru," and a few days later another: "Nixon in Venezuela." But the explosive receptions that greeted Dick Nixon in those countries on those dates only moved the U.S. to a search for answers. "I was an American," wrote a TIME correspondent in Caracas, "and here before my eyes the Vice President of the U.S. was on the verge of very possibly being beaten to death. How in God's name could something like this be happening?" For some answers...
Pollster Gallup had one note of caution. Early in 1946 Democrats held a 55% edge in the same area of nationwide congressional preference, but toward midsummer, resentment against a rash of crippling strikes by labor unions turned the tide. That November, Republicans captured a majority of 246 House seats in the 80th Congress, even though Democrat Harry Truman was in the White House. Gallup's 1958 escape hatch: with a summer business upturn, congressional history might possibly repeat itself...
...technical equipment is superb. The enormous hands cover a twelve-note span. He has a dazzling warmup technique of playing swift scales in octaves and tenths with his hands crossed, a trick that he says does wonders to develop the left hand. When a friend told him about big-handed Soviet Pianist Richter's trick of playing tenths and simultaneously playing thirds between thumb and forefinger, Van immediately duplicated it, commented, "Aw, that's not hard." He plays Rachmaninoff's Third Concerto with the cadenza that the pianist-composer rewrote for his own performances because...
Last week Steele, Joan and Taj Joan all hit the spot-the one marked X-at Pepsi's annual stockholders' meeting. Reason: a small note on page 6 of the annual proxy statement...
Nobody can explain just how the operas of Giuseppe Verdi became an "electrical communication with the spirit of the time." The idea "just grew"-to the point where Italian patriots detected in the most innocent little note or inflection of a Verdi aria a cry for liberty and revolt. When Cavour received one night the telegram that began Italy's second War of Independence, he said not a word to his aides. He merely flung the window open and bellowed a phrase of Verdi's // Trovatore to his sleeping countrymen...