Word: sat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate Republican Leader William Knowland at the President's weekly legislative conferences, popped Indiana's Charles Halleck, newly installed as House G.O.P. leader. In the chair at Ike's right, reserved in the past for Cabinet officers or other Administration aides reporting to the legislators, sat new Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen. New G.O.P. Senate Whip Tom Kuchel took the place where deposed House Leader Joe Martin had always sat. And before the conference had progressed very far, it was clear too that the new team had brought new attitudes...
...duly relaxed U.S. audiences to determine resistance to precise elements of Communist foreign policy-"Ban on nuclear tests," "China does exist," "If Soviet-American businessmen trade, the politicians will have to follow." On a commercial DC-4 tourist flight over the Great Lakes, a TIME correspondent noted that he sat back while the Kremlin's Ambassador to Washington Menshikov (TIME. Feb. 24) translated a New York Times report on how he was wowing the Americans-"A positive impact...
...explained the principle that makes rockets fly but gave the essential sailing directions for space ships of the future. When a U.S. Atlas or an even bigger (for the present) Soviet space rocket roars into the sky. it runs on rails devised by the ill-tempered Sir Isaac, who sat in his English garden nearly 300 years ago and wondered why things move as they do, and why things fall. When a rocket engine shoots a jet of gas out of its tail cone, Newton's third law takes over: For every action there is an equal and opposite...
Composer Igor Stravinsky has a fierce distrust of most conductors, especially those who try to conduct his own works. But last week Stravinsky, 76, sat in the balcony of Manhattan's Town Hall and watched benignly while a slim, intense man mounted the podium and launched the first U.S. performance of Stravinsky's most recent score-Threni: Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah. The conductor: Stravinsky's protégé Robert Craft, at 35 one of the world's leading interpreters of avant-garde music...
...political career. But there was one post he really coveted. His father, German Prince Louis of Battenberg (the family name, before it was Anglicized to Mountbatten), was forced out in 1914 as Britain's First Sea Lord because of his German origin. One day in 1955 Dickie Mountbatten sat down proudly in his father's old chair at the Admiralty...