Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evil-smelling International Longshoremen's Association (membership: 52,000), which was thrown out of the A.F.L. five years ago. The three men kicked off the master plan by signing a "conference" pact for the purpose of "discussing and settling jurisdictional disputes, matters of mutual concern and matters affecting progress and stability in the transportation industry." Among those who will be invited to attend the August meeting: Red-Lining Harry Bridges, boss of the West Coast's International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union, Paul Hall, president of Joe Curran's rival outfit, the Seafarers' Union...
...share with them the conquest of time and space. They share with us the dangers of that conquest . . . The men who observe and report the achievements of science and skill ... are partners in these achievements. They are also partners in the sacrifices that are sometimes the price of progress...
...lining-left-wing Socialists was just as clearly a vote for the party's leader, Pietro Nenni. But the Christian Democrats, the nation's biggest party, campaigned with no face except the postered memory of their late great postwar statesman Alcide de Gasperi, and the promise of "progress without adventure" along the established line of the party's pro-Western, middle-road record. It was not until last week, a month after the elections, that the 12.5 million Italians who voted for the Christian Democrats learned the party's choice for Premier...
...pianist to play fragments in whatever order his eye falls on them but specifies that when he has played one fragment three times, the piece must end. Another Stockhausen experiment: Groups, a 20-minute work which calls for three orchestras playing simultaneously under three separate conductors. His work in progress: a piece for electronic and conventional instruments, which will allow the instrumentalists to play fast or slow, loud or soft according to their humor...
Cleaned Out. As long ago as April, there were rumors that Wolfson was selling. But on April 7 Wolfson announced that he was "perfectly satisfied" with the progress of American Motors, seeming to imply that he still had his stock. Later, when reporters checked with William A. Shea, an attorney for Wolfson, he blandly denied any selling. Yet by that time, the SEC discovered, Wolfson and his associates had already disposed of 134,300 shares of stock through two Manhattan brokerage firms...