Word: strausses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Europe? He may wander through the Alps to the Swiss town of Fribourg, where he will be nearly swamped under the crush of 3,000 yodelers, on hand to compete for the tenth national championship. On his Rhine journey he may stop off in Coblenz to hear Johann Strauss's A Night in Venice, waterborne on a float in a quiet inlet of the river. Or he may try a harmonica and accordion festival in Nürnberg, where the best West German bands will be chosen at the end of this month. To escape from the harmonicas...
...State Department, ANTA and Japan's Mainichi newspapers), the Symphony of the Air packed Tokyo's 2,600-seat Hibiya Hall for the opening concert. Scalpers were collecting $22 for $5 tickets. Conductor Walter Hendl of the Dallas Symphony led a program of Berlioz, Gershwin, Richard Strauss and Brahms, got a six-minute ovation from an audience which included Crown Prince Akihito. Twenty-four hours before tickets went on sale for a special student concert, crowds began to line up at the box office, and students patiently went to sleep on the sidewalk. Three thousand who could...
...Austria will be free," Chancellor Julius Raab triumphantly telephoned back from Moscow to Vienna. "We get back our homeland in its entirety. The war prisoners and other prisoners will see their fatherland again." The Austrian state radio burst into Strauss waltzes and victory marches. The little band of Austrians headed by Raab himself had had little reason to hope for such success when they took off for Moscow last week. For ten long years, and through close to 400 negotiating sessions, the Russians had blocked every Western move to end the occupation of the country which they had promised...
...jacket of natural-state uranium that gave it greater power at less cost?" The President replied that he did not think he should attempt to answer the question (and the White House clipped both question and reply out of the television coverage), passed the matter to AEC Chairman Strauss, who refused to comment. But the whole exchange whetted new curiosity about the U-bomb, the latest addition to the world's popular atomic vocabulary...
...hand to dedicate a new $300,000 nuclear reactor for research, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss termed the instrument "truly magnificent and versatile," but warned Penn State to instill in its pupils the will to peace or "there may be no second centennials." To clear up the "endless confusion" caused by its switch from college to university status over a year ago, Penn State officially changed its address from State College. Pa., to University Park, Pa. Pennsylvania's Governor George M. Leader presented his respects: "I look upon the university as one of the main sources...