Word: notes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ridiculous & Irrelevant. Jowly old (71) Bricklayer Gray has long been a dissenter among labor leaders. He backed Eisenhower for President in both 1952 and 1956. During the great McCarthy noise, he was the only labor leader of note to go on record with a resounding good word for the late Senator from Wisconsin. But never had Gray dissented with such devastating effect as he did in urging a labor-sponsored wage freeze just as labor leaders were getting ready for a big wage-boost offensive...
...Paris the leaders will meet amidst a noise of bickering, of suspicion that others are not doing their full share. But the dominant note will be simple and wholesome fear-fear of the enormous, suddenly dramatized power of Soviet Russia, which the Sputniks blazoned across the world's skies. Last week there was growing concern that the U.S., to whom they had looked for comfort and new leadership to meet the Sputniks' challenge, was failing their hopes. Doubts deepened when, with a thunderous rumble, the Vanguard rocket burned on its launching pad at Cape Canaveral and tossed...
...Bulganin Note Rejected...
Frederick Brozer, on the other hand, sang very well indeed; but his speaking voice gave Pinafore an unfortunate Brooklynese note. Alison Keith, an old hand with G. and S., speaks and sings with great skill; her Little Buttercup was the best performance of the evening...
Scenes of the doctor visiting peasants living in squalor and ignorance make their points quietly, letting a frown at the stranger's syringe of tetanus serum, or scorn of his flimsy prescription note show the challenges Nerac finally dedicates himself to meeting...