Word: stageful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...asking the U.S. Congress to grant whatever status the Puerto Rican people may choose in a plebiscite. Muñoz' proposal seems to be the proper start: U.S.-Puerto Rico relations are regulated by a compact that can be changed only by mutual consent. It also set the stage for a hot argument in Congress about whether the U.S. should commit itself flatly in advance to accept the decision of the Puerto Rican electorate...
...metamorphoses of the Kennedy Labor Bill are, probably, near their end. The latest stage of development has incurred the displeasure of President Eisenhower, the McClellan "rights bill" was unacceptable to labor, and the original Kennedy measure was unsatisfactory to conservatives. No doubt the House will make a few changes, and more steps will be involved in a reconciliation between the House and Senate, but the present form is, for various reasons, fairly close to what the President must eventually sign or veto...
...last week, 1,000 patrons-many of them conventioneering Rotarians-streamed into the theater each night to applaud the delicate Shaw-Campbell exchanges. Some fidgeted at the length: two full hours on a virtually bare stage. But almost everyone enjoyed the unfolding affair by letter, which began in 1899 when Actress Campbell was at the height of her beauty and Playwright Shaw at the beginning of his brilliance, and ended in 1940 when Mrs. Campbell died in bitter poverty and Shaw at 82 plaintively wrote...
...midnight, evocative as a gutbucket trumpet, as clean as a bank of violins, the music made by Harmonicist Larry Adler, 45, transformed the tawdry basement nightclub. For a little while last week, the bandstand at San Francisco's "hungry i" nightclub seemed as big as a concert stage...
...heart was an inertial-reference package made by Dynamics Corp. of America. Through an intricate system of tiny gyroscopes, it gave Discoverer II a continuous sensing of its motion and attitude in space. When the second-stage rocket separated, the inertial-reference package squirted jets of high-pressure helium out of orifices in the rocket's side, bringing it to a horizontal attitude. Then the rocket motor fired, driving the second stage into an orbit...