Word: program
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kennan was indignant when State flatly and successfully opposed a Republican drive in Congress to write a $100 million Far Eastern section into the Military Assistance Program (MAP). The funds would have been at the disposal of the Administration for discretionary use against Communism in East Asia...
...boom, from well-wishers, favor-askers, crackpots, foreign diplomats. Callers pressed him relentlessly-a U.S. broadcasting company wanted to record his message to the American people; Bonn's deputy mayor came to talk over housing for mushrooming government' bureaus; a secretary asked him to approve the musical program for the opening of parliament. Adenauer was still negotiating, shrewdly as ever, to form a cabinet that would guarantee him the most workable coalition. (The Socialists are now definitely out; in are the free-enterprising Protestant Free Democrats and the extreme nationalist Deutsche Partei.) From Bonn last week, TIME Correspondent...
Among the many American bourgeois institutions which the Russians have adapted to their own devices is the quiz program. The Russian version, however, would scarcely get a respectable Hooperating: listeners merely send in questions which omniscient Radio Moscow answers. When a "Soviet citizeness" wrote in recently to ask for a definition of the term "people's democracy," Radio Moscow replied that a people's democracy was a country of a new type, struggling ever onward, ever upward on the road to socialism...
Biggest hit was a piece Goossens had brought with him, "a piece ... for Australia to be proud of." Concertgoers got a kick out of the program notes of John Antill's ballet suite Corroboree (aborigine for get-together): "Much usage of boomerang, spear and fire sticks." But its savage and original rhythms and percussive effects excited them to an ovation when it was over, though a member of the orchestra said, "From within, it sounds only like noise...
...Symphony musicians had seen their tall, usually self-confident program producer, Don Gillis, looking like a colicky cat before-the last time, the day Arturo Toscanini first rehearsed Gillis' new Symphony 5^ (TIME, Sept...