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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration has become entangled by its own double-talk and mouthwash slogans. "Peace, Progress, and Prosperity" expressed a hopeful note which somewhere turned sour. A successful military man should know that last war's weapons fast become obsolete, yet defunct ideas and empty symbols still dominate the President's approach to recession recovery. The White House, for example, was exceedingly cruel when it suggested recently that the unemployed were being uncooperative by their failure to buy more goods. Luxury items, to be sure, are selling close to pre-recession levels, but the rich are patriotic and will always pull hard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Recession | 5/7/1958 | See Source »

...speaking of future plans for PBH, Sarbanes revealed that the next year's Combined Charities Drive has been tentatively scheduled for December, but emphasized that negotiations with the Student Council are still in progress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH Names Officer | 5/6/1958 | See Source »

...progress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera by Americans | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...orchestration before his death of leukemia last December at the age of 35. His good friend Hershy Kay completed the orchestration from Kurka's red-penciled notes. Loose-jointed and episodic, the opera introduces Schweik (Tenor Norman Kelley) as he is being arrested for "high treason," traces his progress through a scurvy prison and a madhouse, follows him into the army as an orderly. At the end he wanders away from the trenches singing a plaintive little song ("I'll take a quiet road, and I'll lie in the sun/For birds and butterflies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera by Americans | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

When the rain caused play to stop, Barnaby arranged for the use of indoor courts later in the afternoon. However, all-club-weekend was in progress at Princeton, and the Tigers had 6:55 plane reservations. Thus, they decided not to continue the match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rain Ends Varsity Tennis Match | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

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