Word: performances
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...scattered from the mouth of the Orinoco to Maracaibo, but nearly two-thirds of them live in Caracas, where they help to create an atmosphere of hustle and bustle rare in Latin America. From the equator to the Rio Grande, Venezuela is the only country where well-paid Europeans perform manual labor. Hard-working Italians, Spaniards and Portuguese dig ditches, pour concrete, lay bricks, hammer nails. The immigrants seldom fool around on the job; when it rains, they don slickers and keep working. There is some local resentment of the newcomers' all-work-and-no-play attitude, and radio...
...Democrat-controlled Senate Banking and Currency Committee threw out the Eisenhower Administration's plan to build 35,000 public-housing units a year for two years and substituted a high-spending four-year program of roughly 100,000 units a year, the question arose: Would Leader Johnson perform his nimble best to get it through the Senate? He would and he did. With a flick of his thumb, Johnson signaled to presiding senators whom to recognize-speakers who would not antagonize Southerners or be trapped by Republicans. A twirl of Johnson's lifted forefinger, the airman...
...nobler than retreat before imagined defeat. Probably there are other less selfish considerations. Because Adlai has way above average intelligence, he is not complacent. He is well aware of the immensity of the problems confronting a President. He doubts whether he or any man has sufficient ability to perform the function of Chief Executive. He thinks it is presumptuous for anyone to insist that he is the man who can. A very liberal friend of mine, experienced in politics on the national level, no longer thinks Stevenson would be the strongest candidate. This friend is convinced that Sen. Symington...
Holland will stage performances in The Hague-Scheveningen, Amsterdam, Rotterdam and 13 cities and other towns (June 15-July 15). Besides the first-rate Concertgebouw and Hague Residentie orchestras, the Israel Philharmonic. Milan's La Scala opera and the New York City Ballet will perform...
Apples & Atabrine. But even the finest recruiting techniques could not have rescued the WAC had not the women proved themselves in the field. It was discovered that of the 629 listed military occupations, women could perform more than half (instead of the handful of jobs originally contemplated). It had been thought that three women might possibly do the work of two men. Instead, it was demonstrated that three women could stand in for four men on most jobs. In the Far-East, Air General George Stratemeyer was so pleased with the work of the WACs that he authorized them...