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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mass, together with the famous Alleluia, is one of the most important records issued this year. Quite aside from its other merits, it is a considerable tour-de-force, in that it solves a serious problem for American composers: an English text can often make the most exalted choral music sound like Gilbert and Sullivan, or worse. Some of the best of Handel and Purcell sounds more than a little ridiculous because of this...
State's LeMay turned out to be a powerful combination. Today, when White spends most of his time in Joint Chiefs planning and budget sessions, it is Curt LeMay who is often operating head of the Air Force -and, good soldier that he is, he operates in White...
...smaller members of the United Nations often find it hard to keep their U.N. delegations up to strength. Budgets cannot stand the cost of salaries for a full complement, and qualified, self-supporting volunteers are rare. Last year Costa Rica's U.N. Ambassador Alberto Canas found one-a charming Alabaman named Henrietta Boggs, 37. Her Costa Rican qualification: marriage from 1942 to 1953 to President Jose ("Pepe") Figueres. Her means of support, Pepe's alimony...
...Play was often ragged, but always hard-fought, with both teams showing to much better advantage defensively than on the attack. The game was won along the line of scrimage, where the Yale forwards consistently outcharged their Crimson opponents...
Second, the cloak of security is all too often used to hide mistakes and inefficiency instead of genuinely confidential material. No one has ever gotten into trouble for over-classifying material, so the bureaucrats responsible naturally tend to err on the side of caution...