Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a short pause came the weekly "Free Play" period, which is in many ways the most interesting section on the program. Freed from the confines of an artificial, pre-arranged scheme of notes, the ringers are enabled to express themselves directly, each one following his natural and spontaneous whim, without the constraining necessity of noticing what his fellow-ringers are doing. The bells are without doubt an ideal medium for this kind of improvisation, providing an immediacy of response and variety of expression unsurpassable on any instrument. The popularity of these sections testify to the sensitivity and unerring rhythmic...
...with his own agricultural crisis, Mao Tsetung launched 1958's most audacious political act, ordering his 650 million subjects into human anthills called "people's communes." But at year's end he was compelled to retreat, not because of popular resentment (which did not bother him), but because his scheme was not working at all well...
CULTURAL RELATIONS: "There is no substitute for increased sensitivity on one side and the avoidance of shrillness on the other." Congress should consider a Fulbright-type scheme to allow U.S. scholars to study and lecture in Canada...
...bewildered Batonga were further unsettled by the arrival of zoot-suited agitators from the African National Congress who told them the government scheme was merely a plot to steal their ancestral land. When the dam began rising in tHe gorge, the agitators took a different tack, began selling magic tickets to the villagers that guaranteed that the "white man's wall" would be overthrown by the most potent god in Batonga mythology: the mighty Snake of the Zambesi, whose whiskers are the spray of Victoria Falls and whose tail stretches 250 miles to the Kariba gorge...
...gold bullion, and some banks have developed a modest sideline in the purchase, sale and storage of gold bars for clients. Last week the Toronto firm of Doherty Roadhouse & Co. advertised a fresh wrinkle: margin buying. Within an hour after Partner John Rogers opened the books on the new scheme, $140,000 in orders snowed down on his desk; inquiries crackled in by the hundreds from...