Word: proofs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proof was Threni. Since then, Oliver has scored other successes singing four Mozart arias with the Santa Monica Symphony, and as Zuniga in the Hollywood Bowl's Carmen. He takes as many as five lessons each week, is now being trained by Strelitzer to sing all of Wagner's bass roles. Oliver insists that he will not turn professional. But he knows that most bassos do not reach their peak until their mid-40s and admits that the idea is attractive. Says he: "There is a great temptation when you have that feeling of raw power over...
What everyone had long known about Cuba was confirmed in detail last week: Fidel Castro has turned his country into an invasion base. The proof came in Manhattan, when a group of disillusioned young Americans of Puerto Rican descent returned home after going to Cuba to participate in the recent invasion of the Dominican Republic. Propelled by dreams of glory, plus promises of hard cash by anti-Trujillo exiles, the young men, ranging in age from 17 to 29 and most of them unemployed, got tickets to Havana and what they thought to be a chance at high adventure. Said...
...France, the Church of England is still wary of the idea. "This is a waste of skilled manpower," says Dr. Leslie Hunter, Bishop of Sheffield. Strong's retort: "Many people regard the Church as something apart. In my own way I am trying to dispel that attitude." One proof of his success: Strong was elected by his fellow workers to be shop steward of the Amalgamated Engineering Union...
...seventh of all the world's people suffer from trachoma. No killer, but the cause of maddening itching and burning in the eyes, it impairs vision, often leads to blindness. Now, after 50 years of frustrating efforts to find incontrovertible proof that the disease is caused by a virus, Britain's Medical Research Council reports that researchers have closed the circle of evidence. It was a blind man who helped them to see the proof they needed...
...premeditated; before launching his austerity program, he raised wages an average 32.5%, because "it was a social and political impossibility to permit rising living costs to be thrown totally on the shoulders of the working classes." From now on, says Alessandri, "the rhythm of inflation will slow down," as proof, points out that while January living costs jumped by a spectacular 4.7%, the June rise dropped...