Word: rose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ellsberg does not accept the theory that McCarthy rose because he was a demagogue who had the support of the Stalin-fearing masses. Instead, he believes that the Republicans, caught off balance by Truman's victory, "went crazy." Former Sen. Robert Taft (R-Ohio) was "willing to do literally anything to get the Democrats out of office," Ellsberg says. In addition, there is evidence that Truman himself supported McCarthy in an effort to "tar Henry Wallace with the communist brush" and thus eliminate the opposition from the left in his own party, he says...
...agree with the Administration that inflation, now at an annual rate of 10%, will be slowed in the second half of the year-unless wage settlements in labor negotiations get out of hand. Last week the Labor Department released two figures that strongly buttressed the Administration view. Wholesale prices rose in May by only .4%, the smallest rise in nine months and less than half the 1.1% rise in April. At the same time, the unemployment rate dropped to 6.9% in May from April's 7%, the lowest level since November 1974 and a heartening decline from January...
Amos, who was the first black talent agent to be hired by William Morris, fell upon hard times in Los Angeles and rose again on his Aunt Delia's recipe for guess-what. Thanks to salivating promotion, he is baking six tons of his Famous Amos cookies each week at a factory in Nutley, N.J., and his original shop on Sunset Boulevard; the chewy entremets are sold in bon ton stores from Bloomingdale's to Neiman-Marcus, J.L. Hudson's to Robinson...
...houselights dimmed in Detroits Cobo Hall last week, the concertmaster signaled for the oboist's A, and the strings and woodwinds went about the squeaky business of tuning up. Then like something out of an old Esther Williams spectacular, Conductor Godfrey Salmon rose 14 feet in the air atop a hydraulic podium. Silence reigned for a good second or two before the cries came from the audience: "Rock 'n' roll!" "Get it on!" "It's boogie time...
...Street Theater (see following story). Noon at the Dock Street was the hour for a daily series of chamber music programs under the co-directorship of Pianists Peter Serkin and Charles Wadsworth. The first recital consisted of works by Pergolesi, Schubert and Dvorak, and the capacity audience of 463 rose to its feet, applauding...