Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forty-eight hours after Secretary of State John Foster Dulles landed in Washington after his vacation in the Bahamas, he sat down in the crowded Senate caucus room last week to face the storm over U.S. foreign policy. In charge was Georgia's Walter George, who had called the unusual open session of the Foreign Relations Committee primarily to find out about the off-again, on-again Saudi Arabian tank shipment. But it was obvious from one look at the squall line of Democratic liberals (Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, Alabama's John Sparkman, Arkansas' Bill Fulbright...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Rigoletto, with Warren, Conley, Peters, Tozzi...
Philadelphia Orchestra (Sat. 9 :05p.m., CBS). Music by Mozart, Schubert...
Waiting Game. General Merino, 51, an able infantry officer, then sat back to wait. His boondocks uprising was shrewdly conceived. By merely proclaiming a rebellion, Merino forced Odria to retaliate or lose his strongman's prestige. But Odria was denied any chance of easy attack. Merino claimed the whole Second (Jungle) Division of 12,000 men (the whole army numbers 55,000 to 60,000). He also claimed the navy's Amazon fleet: seven 200-to 500-ton gunboats, and about thirty 10-to 50-ton river patrol craft. Moreover, most of the troops were inaccessibly camped...
...days and two nights the steel-bands played on without pause. In the late hours of mardi gras, bone-weary celebrants sat on curbstones, heads in arms, waiting for transportation home. But still, here and there, a clanking, humming steel-band could be heard, and its dancing members still wore expressions that seemed to say: this is our day, and this is the music that truly belongs to us. When midnight struck, the music stopped, and Trinidad's steelbands vanished from the streets for another year...