Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Federal Communications Commissioner Richard Alfred Mack glanced uneasily around at the members of the House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight, licked his dry lips, and said: "I want to apologize that I may seem a little nervous this morning." Democrat Mack had plenty to be nervous about: he was accused of accepting money and other favors for his vote to grant Miami's Channel 10 television franchise to a National Airlines subsidiary. The House subcommittee let Mack read a 4,000-word statement, handled him gently for a while, then cuffed him sharply-and weak Richie Mack left...
...least one critic, the New York World-Telegram and The Sun's Louis Biancolli, confessed that the last act had reduced him to tears. Such weeping not withstanding, it was not the greatest Otello in Met history. Nor did it have the special attraction of Maria Callas (who scored a triumph the following night as the most convincing and moving Tosca of her time). Otello was merely excellent-and significant precisely because it was the kind of topnotch production that Rudolf Bing's Met can mount any night of the week it has a mind...
...give credit for band time, physical education, chorus, etc.; 166 out of 218 allow athletic teams to eat up school hours with practice sessions. ¶More than half the nation's 23,746 public high schools are too small to do an effective teaching job, a special committee told the American Association of School Administrators at its annual convention in St. Louis. More than 13,000 high schools with 200 or fewer pupils are staffed by ten or fewer teachers who can do little but provide the bare basics of education. The costly solution: consolidating school districts wherever possible...
Mother Mary decided early that the nun's habit she had been wearing all her life would set up too much of a barrier between herself and the girls, got special permission from the Vatican to wear secular clothes. Many of her simple, tweedy outfits are homemade, and she wears no lipstick or jewelry, even on her fund-raising expeditions into Roman society. But some of the shocked villagers of Borgata Ottavia imaginatively endow her with mink coats and painted fingernails. "What will she make of those girls?" asked one indignant woman of the neighborhood last week. "Not good...
Died. Frederick M. Dearborn Jr., 46, Special Assistant to President Eisenhower for Security Operations Coordination, watchdog over the implementation of National Security Council decisions; of shock and acute hemorrhagic pancreatitis; in Washington. Educated at Harvard and a lieutenant colonel in World War II, Boston Lawyer Dearborn joined the White House Staff last...