Word: raiser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After that rousing curtain raiser, Schmidt had the convention in his lap. In a conciliatory speech full of profuse praise for Brandt, the Chancellor reassured the 436 delegates that his government was doing everything possible to advance the party's aims, within the limitations of the coalition. The congress voted down a laundry list of Jusos resolutions calling for government control of industrial investments, nationalization of key industries and banks, a $1,953 limitation on monthly personal incomes and a hefty "luxury" tax on a wide variety of consumer goods...
...history. He died in obscurity in Tel Aviv in 1951. Golda, changing her name to the Hebrew Meir ("Illuminate") at David Ben-Gurion's order, developed into "a public person and not a homebody." As the world knows, the former kibbutznik became political worker and global fund raiser for the Palestinian Jews. After Israel's independence in 1948, she progressed still higher: Ambassador to Moscow, Labor Minister, Foreign Minister, finally, Prime Minister for five years, a role which made her one of the world's most notable women...
...indoor track and a converted flower stall," Caldwell produced operas, including difficult ones that no one else would touch, and staged them ingeniously (she had to, given her cramped quarters). Working day and night as her own conductor, administrative boss, stage director, talent hunter, principal researcher and fund raiser, she has become a symbol of the vigorous growth of opera in dozens of cities around the U.S. She is also one of the great impresarios in all the American performing arts...
...Museum of Fine Arts is having its problems these days. Since you've been gone, the director has been fired, the admission price has gone up to $2.50 and a former bank president has been hired as the museum's chief money-raiser. But its collection is still one of the world's greatest, and if you haven't seen it after all these years you should quit stalling. Right now last spring's bicentennial binge, "Paul Revere's Boston," is finishing its five-month run. It's interesting for colonial silver-and-furniture buffs...
Most of the rest of Ford's week was spent indoors. Friday night he was in Kansas City, Kans., for another fund raiser; on Saturday he flew to Dallas, and amid inevitable reminders of John Kennedy, Ford addressed some 2,000 members of the National Federation of Republican Women and spoke at Southern Methodist University. Then he journeyed to Midland, Texas, where he dedicated the Permian Basin Petroleum Museum and was thanked with a shower of rose petals-a fitting gesture in a week when Congress sustained his veto of an oil decontrol bill...