Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jordan's Hussein can and does thank the U.S. for the continued existence of his tiny, beleaguered Middle East kingdom, now shored up by the U.S. at a rate of $50 million yearly. Hussein has sat six precarious years on his throne, twice since Suez alone has been almost toppled by attack without and within. Finally, in a bold and deliberate show of control, he left Amman in early March, traveled leisurely past Formosa and Hawaii, hit the U.S. mainland at San Francisco. In Washington, Hussein was greeted by Vice President Nixon, feted by President Eisenhower. Said...
...platform, signaled the beginning of the first press conference ever given by a French President. In the hour that followed, the 600 newsmen present witnessed the closest thing to a royal audience that France has seen since the days of Napoleon III. While the Cabinet of the Fifth Republic sat in dutiful silence at the foot of his dais, De Gaulle announced that he himself would speak for France at the prospective summit meeting-though, naturally, "with Premier Michel Debré at my side." With the disdain of a prince for a parvenu, he shot a derisive shaft at Khrushchev...
...harsh proscenium lights, the interior of St. Katherine's Church looked sadly tattered. The backdrop sagged, and the huge carved chair from which Walther von Stolzing sings his trial song in the first act of Die Meistersinger was pushed to one side. But out in the cavernous auditorium sat a crowd of invited guests, waiting for another kind of trial song. The occasion: the Met's first public talent audition...
...story was bound to come out sooner or later. In fact, the U.S. was committed to release much of the information to the world at large as part of its International Geophysical Year program. But the Pentagon stubbornly sat on the data. Last week, convinced that a U.S. official was about to break the news and certain that Russia had already calculated the theoretical effects of such tests, Baldwin and Sullivan recommended publication to Managing Editor Turner Catledge. Before the presses rolled, they informed the Pentagon and the White House that the story...
...Sat., March 28 Young People's Concert (CBS, 12 noon-1 p.m.). Conductor Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic in their fourth and final program this season...