Word: rolls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...devoted three pages of a five-page speech in homage to New York's roster of eminent Democrats (Roosevelt, Lehman, Al Smith), not neglecting recent foes Averell Harriman and Carmine De Sapio. Nor was his attack on the Eisenhower Administration any more resounding than the calling of the roll: a "false front" administration, he called it, where Eisenhower appointees were undercutting programs, e.g., public housing, conservation, which had progressed under the Democratic administrations. Many a New York Democratic conventioneer sat on his hands...
...Sunday," said a British theater operator last week, in what had to be regarded as a masterpiece of understatement even for Britons, "is regarded as the difficult night in cinemas." The specific difficulty was the effect that a U.S. rock-'n'-roll movie was having on Britain's notorious teen-age delinquents, the Teddy Boys. Scarcely a week goes by without some headline proclaiming the latest exploits of the "Teds.'' But nothing before had sparked them to the frenzy induced by the gross tick-tock of Rock Around the Clock...
Landing in Los Angeles, Stevenson and Kefauver faced a mob scene sufficient to warm any politician's heart. As they prepared to meet the crowd, someone remarked that it was a greater throng than the one that recently met Rock-'n'-Roll Star Elvis Presley. "Who," asked Stevenson, "is Elvis Presley?" As usual, Estes Kefauver was right on hand to help fill Stevenson's fund of commoner knowledge. Elvis the Pelvis, he said, was "a fine boy" from Tennessee...
...necessary roster of 250 pilots filled the company pays salaries of up to $18,000 a year, offers generous bonuses for overtime, shares of the profits, liberal family allowances, special housing and schools and long paid vacations. Only about 40 of the 200-odd pilots now on the Suez roll are native Egyptians, and these were laid on only because Nasser refused to grant visas to any more foreign pilots unless some of his own countrymen were put on the roster...
...older. Over a subtle background melody, Madame de Maintenon makes her legendary stab at Madame de Montespan: "Last night I dreamt, Madame, that we were on the grand stairs of Versailles: I was going up; you were coming down." The King dies, and several deep orchestral chords seem to roll a tombstone over his entire century. Then Louis XV is on the throne; his meeting with Pompadour is set off by a lilting love song. Music marks a new culture, as from the palace windows twang the pure, shrill notes of the harpsichord. Explains Narrator Boyer: "Grace succeeds grandeur...