Word: said
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Formosa did survive, and one recent evening, the Gimo, accompanied by Madame Chiang, drove down to the heart of Taipeh to see the solid evidence of a decade of economic achievements at the First Annual Trade Fair of the Republic of China. "Hao, hao [good, good]," he said, as he passed through row after row of stalls proudly displaying Formosa-made trucks, machine tools, plastic toys-even Ivy League shirts...
...wrote Mrs. Roosevelt, "she did under my direction. I remember feeding everyone for a time on the same menus that had been worked out for people on relief in the days of the Depression . . . And I remember well the day when the author of this book, my son James, said to me pathetically at lunch: 'If I paid five cents extra, Mother, could I have a glass of milk?' And there was the time [the late aviatrix] Amelia Earhart, who was staying with us on a brief visit, said she was hungry and could get nothing...
...Louis transit system, plays the second flute while his wife is a timpanist and his 23-year-old son a French horn player. The rehearsal schedule is heavy: six 2½-hour rehearsals for each of four concerts. What gives the Philharmonic its special quality? "They are amateurs," said Guest Conductor Van Remoortel last week, "in the old sense of the word-'people in love with something.' This group happens to be in love with music...
HOMOSEXUALITY: "All homosexual acts are sins," said the archbishop, but they should not necessarily be crimes. "Some of us think that this particular evil could be more effectively dealt with pastorally if it were not regarded as criminal...
...whether he would transfer his allegiance from the Milwaukee Braves to the Chicago Cubs. Met by a crowd of newsmen and clerics at a Chicago airport last week, as he returned from Washington, Meyer chomped his chewing gum vigorously. "Of course, I am happy for myself," he said, "but I am even happier for the people of Chicago. We must be even more dedicated now." Archbishop Meyer is expected to be the only one of the new cardinals who will not be assigned to the Curia in Rome. The second American to get a red hat was also born...