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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final days of the Festival provided a program given by members of the New York City Ballet. Although the ensemble of the orchestra and supporting dancers was sometimes imperfect, the two stars--Maria Tallchief and Andre Eglevsky--were in top form and rank with the best of ballerinas and danseurs nobles...
...Trade-Off. What Charlie Wilson appeared to be calling "a phony" was indeed phony enough. The Democratic leadership of the U.S. Senate, aided and abetted by many rank-and-file members of both parties, was trying to foist off on the Defense Department an extra $1.1 billion for the Air Force-which the Administration, after arduous consideration, had decided it did not need. At the same time, but by no means the result of erratic happenstance-the Senate Democratic leaders, again urged on by bipartisan rank-and-filers, seemed determined to lop $1.1 billion off the foreign-aid program...
...government to restore APRA's legal status in exchange for a pledge to support the government candidate. Odría liked the idea, but his military Cabinet refused to go along with the deal. For his part, Candidate Belaunde angered Prialé by appealing for the votes of rank-and-file Apristas over Prialé's head. When he heard Prado's timely promise of amnesty, Prialé sent out the order to back Prado...
Actually, says Black, "trained people are needed more than money in underdeveloped countries." To supply the need, the bank currently runs a year-long course for junior-rank career officials, training them in such subjects as balance of payments, national-income accounting, project preparation, etc. Black has also set up a school for senior governmental officials. Among his students last week: Colombia's national-planning director, the financial adviser of Pakistan, the economic director for Egypt's finance ministry...
...tone is set by Helmuth James, Count von Moltke, a great-grandnephew of the Prussian field marshal whose strategy won the Franco-Prussian war. Moltke was executed at the Plotzensee prison in January 1945 for discussing matters "that are the exclusive concern of the Fuhrer." By his name and rank he could have aspired to any position in Hitler's Reich; instead, he agreed with what his jailers told him at his own trial: "Christianity and we National Socialists have one thing in common, and one thing only: we claim the whole man." Agreeing, he died a whole...