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...charging conspiracy and discrimination to keep non-BMI music from being heard as often as it should be. Among the 33: Ira (I Got Rhythm] Gershwin. Arthur (Dancing in the Dark] Schwartz, Dorothy (I Can't Give Yon Anything but Love) Fields. Gian-Carlo (The Consul) Menotti. They reckon that they and other non-BMI composers have collectively lost $50 million in royalties in the past decade. Their demand: triple damages ($150 million) and a court order directing broadcasters...
...well as in the East, the forces grow," warned Marjolin. "The world balance changes while Europe lags behind." It is true, he added, that Russia expands without liberty and with forced labor. "We can pity the men, denounce the methods, but let us not forget that tomorrow we must reckon with Soviet economic power...
...demand for electric power is growing so fast that utilities reckon they will have to build as much new capacity in the next decade as in the past 75 years. General Electric estimates that in 1960 the growth and replacement market should mean total industry sales of 4,500,000 refrigerators v. 3,900,000 in 1951, 1,500,000 freezers v. 1,000,000, 2,500,000 ranges v. 1,400,000. As for the pivotal U.S. auto industry, which accounts for about 7.6% of U.S. manufactured-goods production, the predicted increase of 24 million population by 1960 will...
Voice of Experience. In New Bern, N.C., applying for a marriage license, Alec Ogburn gave his age-111-and that of his bride-to-be-22-and told the wide-eyed clerk: "Don't laugh at me, lady . . . If I don't get along with her, I reckon...
...wing and picked Attilio Piccioni, the Vice Premier, who was expected to attempt a deal with the Monarchists-something Alcide de Gasperi would not do. Piccioni's first step: to insist that De Gasperi be his Foreign Minister. Even in defeat, De Gasperi was still a man to reckon with...