Word: schemed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yehudi Menuhin. Still to come are Pianist Leon Fleisher, Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick, Singers William Warfield, Eleanor Steber, Harry Belafonte. The world premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti's opera Maria Golovin will take place in Brussels, and some performers from the Newport Jazz Festival will appear. The most cherished scheme of U.S. Performing Arts Coordinator Jean Dalrymple: to find a well-heeled angel who will underwrite a live run of Pajama Game...
...Oxford and London. Ambrose has just done a job of espionage in civil-war-torn Spain to accommodate a friend in the Foreign Office, and he wants a few weeks of peace before the fall term starts at Oxford. But he needs money (he has worked out a scheme to pauperize the Grimaldis' gambling hell at Monte Carlo), and a millionaire industrialist offers him ?500 to truffle out some missing Bach concertos...
...refuses to guess. Perhaps the general simply could not confine his venturesome ego to a small Philadelphia lumber business and a placid, happy marriage. Backed by capital that may or may not have come from Wall Street, Littlefield went back to the South in 1867 with a bold scheme that was tactically watertight-and morally as leaky as a sieve. The plan was to buy up defaulted North Carolina railroad bonds for pennies, lobby or bribe the legislature into redeeming them, and sell on the rise. Littlefield found a ready ally in a pious, serpentine North Carolina banker named George...
...trap him. With a certain masculine embarrassment, he reluctantly confirms French reports that he has on occasion disguised himself as a veiled Moslem woman, explains defensively: "I would do anything for the revolution." His proudest boast is of the manner in which he foiled a daring scheme originated by Jacques Soustelle, then Governor General of Algeria...
...only major nation that has made no real dent in its postwar housing shortage. ¶ Minister of Justice Michel Debré was charged with the task of reorganizing France's hodgepodge judicial structure. ¶ Ministers Louis Jacquinot, Jean Berthoin and André Malraux were ordered to devise a scheme for financing long-range scientific research. ¶ Minister of State Guy Mollet was assigned to head a task force to simplify the structure of French municipal government...