Word: slips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three-party government coalition or the Communist-dominated Popular Action Front, which came within a shade of winning the presidency in 1958. But both the government coalition and the Popular Action Front lost ground in last week's voting, and Frei thinks that they will continue to slip, paving his way to the presidency in 1964. "There are three things working in our favor," says Frei. "First, people are tired of the present political juxtaposition. Second, people don't want a rightist government. Third, people do not want a Communist government...
Schippers enriched his private memorial by playing the Poulenc Concerto for Organ in G Minor just before the perform ance of the Sept Répons. Having transferred keyboard notes to the foot pedals, he freed an arm for conducting, and with only one slip (a missed orchestral entry), he played with brilliant drive. The massive, 5,000-pipe organ overwhelmed the string orchestra, but Schippers coaxed out of the instrument all the music's high glories...
...week, it was a pretty green jacket with brass buttons and an embroidered map of the U.S. on the breast pocket. The blazer and $20,000 go to the Masters champion, and Arnold Palmer got close enough last week to read the label-while he was helping Jack Nicklaus slip...
...face-losing gesture that neither the cardinal nor the Vatican is inclined to make. Church officials would like the Hungarians to offer Mindszenty a pardon and restore him briefly to his primatial see-but the Hungarians have evidently refused. Thus the Vatican will probably settle for having Mindszenty slip out and stay out. the formula used with Ukrainian Archbishop Josyf Slipyi when he was released last February from Soviet custody...
...tangos, polonaises-name it, they do it. Mikhail carries around 4 billion francs that the Czar gave him "as a sacred trust." come the counterrevolution. As of 1927, a sly Bolshevik commissar (Alexander Scourby) is trailing Mikhail for the money, and Tatiana proposes that they give the Red the slip by signing on as maid and butler to an oil-rich American family...