Word: portions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ellington's Take the A Train die into the background. For the next hour, seven nights a week, 52 weeks a year, the world's most widely heard disk-jockey program has the attention of listeners in 80-odd countries. It is the second and more popular portion of Music U.S.A. (the first half is pop tunes), the Voice of America's only regular music program. The words come from Disk Jockey Willis Conover; the music comes from all over America...
Dulles also pitched in to amend the President's remarks on U.S. history. "In 1823," he said, "President Monroe proclaimed to the despotic alliance then headed by czarist Russia that 'we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety . . .'It was indeed farsighted and bold for our young nation thus to identify its own self-interest with the fate of freedom thousands of miles away. Yet the pronouncement of that principle, Webster recorded, was greeted with 'one general glow...
...most significant omission in the edited text was any reference to the effect of Stalin's terror on Soviet foreign policy. Last week Italian Communists were saying that a major portion of Khrushchev's speech was devoted to a searing attack on Stalin's conduct of international relations...
...unpublished portion of his speech, say the Italians, Khrushchev charged that Stalin 1) needlessly destroyed international good will existing between the Soviet Union and her World War II allies; 2) deliberately planned and executed provocative measures like the Berlin blockade-which proved to be dangerous and humiliating failures, to boot; 3) ruthlessly deprived the Soviet people of the fruits of victory by forcing them to tighten their belts and concentrate on aggressive adventures and military preparations, including the production of outdated arms; 4) started the war in Korea confident that a walkover victory would be accepted...
...Istanbul, Top Bop Trumpeter John Birks ("Dizzy") Gillespie and his 16-piece band took crowds of Turks through a rapid history of jazz, then fed them a solid portion in the progressive style that left the audiences yelling with excitement. It was stop No. 9 in the troupe's seven-country tour as the State Department's first official jazz ambassadors, taking in many places that had never heard live American jazz, and some that had not even heard about...