Word: pres
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Balance of Power: The Pres ident believes that Communist mo mentum, which picked up after Sputnik 1, has slackened. The balance of power is with the free world, but there remain many problems. The rich nations get richer and the poor nations get poorer, and Kennedy finds incomprehensible the attacks on U.S. foreign aid programs aimed at helping underdeveloped nations...
Actually, the first crack in the dam was when Lester ("Pres") Young introduced a new school of vibratoless tone and long, extended solo lines. Young was Hawkins' strongest challenger, and it was Pres who begat Getz and the cool school. Most musicians consider Hawkins and Young the two great tenor influences...
...remainder of the evening was taken up with two settings of the communion hymn 'ave Verum Corpus," one by Josquin des Pres and the second by William Byrd. Both were good (That's right, there are so many favorable adjectives in this that the supply is running pretty low). The concluding work on the program, Schutz's version of Psalm 84, was also competently performed. In all, it was quite a concert. Someone had quite evidently put a lot of work into...
...wouldn't be surprised if Pres. Charles de Gaulle were playing for time," Macridis asserted. The French President's "reluctance grows all the time, because De Gaulle fears that England's entry into the Common Market may diminish his own power within it and hamper its development...
Last September Strauss's prospects lost their glow. Before the final returns were in for national elections, Strauss referred to Adenauer in the past tense, angled with the Chancellor's opponents to pres sure him from office. During a U.S. trip, he plumped to make NATO a "fourth nu clear power" (enabling West Germany to get atomic arms), despite Washington's objections. Adenauer, visiting President Kennedy at the time, said nary a word to support his Defense Minister...