Word: picked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Missouri's Stuart Symington. Running hard for prestige purposes against weak opposition, he bettered his 1952 showing, won a 375,000 plurality to establish a Missouri off-year record. Symington's advantage: he is No. 2 on nearly every list, presumably would pick up strong second-ballot support...
...reluctance of the Moslems was partly based on fear of the F.L.N., which could not make good on its death threats against the 3,000,000 Moslems who voted in the referendum, but could easily pick off the few that ran for office. Besides, many moderate Moslems seemed to feel that, if De Gaulle's government was eventually going to deal with the F.L.N., they should not appear as candidates in an election that the F.L.N. had condemned as "null and void...
...Pick on Me?" The main trouble, retorted Callas, was that Bing had signed her to sing two performances of Traviata, on Feb. 13 and 17, between two performances of Macbeth on Feb. 5 and 21. "Macbeth is a very heavy opera. I have to build back to my heavy voice, and it takes a month. My voice is not an elevator, going up and down...
...said Callas (Bing denied it), or sung three straight Macbeths: "But he offered me Lucia as a substitute which is even more ridiculous than Traviata. A few weeks ago it was reported to me that Mario Del Monaco had canceled Aida, and they gave him another opera. So why pick on me? Is it because I am an American? The others are all foreigners." Said Bing: Tebaldi had canceled Traviata only after she agreed to accept a substitute role, and Del Monaco's cancellation in Aida had been arranged in ample time...
Tweedily alive, and working at the Ford Foundation-financed Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences near Palo Alto, Calif., Young said last week to a TIME correspondent: "I tried to extrapolate the tendency in Britain to pick out the best and make them the elite. All our students should have at least been to the same schools at the same time. I want English schools more like yours, and your educators seem to want yours more like ours...