Word: paged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moved quickly on to his UNESCO building, which is being put up in Paris with sculpture and murals by Henry Moore, Alexander Calder, Arp, Miro and Picasso. As Breuer talked, he doodled his ideas on a piece of paper lying on his desk (see cut). The story and the page of color pictures that started all this are laid out in ART, Sculpture Outside...
...freely predicted that there would be no civil rights legislation this session. Reason: the House, which passed a tough bill 286 to 126, would never agree to the watered-down Senate version. And even if it did, Dwight Eisenhower would be virtually forced to veto it because the four-page, 650-word jury-trial amendment was so loosely drawn that it would devastate the whole legal mechanism for dealing with cases under such laws as antitrust, atomic energy and securities exchange by the accepted injunction and contempt-of-court procedures (see box). It would even force jury trials for contempt...
...into the mud-brick-walled rebel citadels in the mountains of Oman. Cairo's press and radio filled the air with shouts about "a British attack on Arab nationalism." Actually it was not much of a war; only the current state of Middle East nerves made it front-page news...
Impatient of the dull details of a law case or parliamentary debate he prefers to delegate the slogging staff work of poltics; he can skim a 300-page legal brief to his satisfaction in an hour and a half. Canadians say that he is their "first Prime Minister with a hearty laugh...
...tried out (with 64 other applicants) for the job of music director at Aachen. With a piano score Sawallisch prepared Aachen's cut version of Tannhäuser, learned on his way to the podium for the last act that a 20-page cut had been restored, sailed through the intricate music at sight without a bobble. He was promptly hired...