Word: strausses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along with its brilliant revivals of Mozart and Richard Strauss, the Salzburg Festival likes to present new operas by contemporary composers. But again and again, the living composers sound less alive than the dead. This year's opera: Penelope, by Switzerland's promising Rolf Liebermann, 43, music director of Radio Zurich. Last week the work opened in a brilliant production, made a less than brilliant impression on audience and critics...
...fortnight ago, five men met in the office of Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss to express their opinions on an explosive personnel matter. Strauss spoke first, and then each of the other four commissioners had his say. At the end their decision was clear: they stood 4-1 for a vote of no confidence in Atomic Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer...
...majority opinion, signed by Commissioners Strauss, Eugene M. Zuckert and Joseph Campbell, held that: "Concern for the defense and security of the United States requires that Dr. Oppenheimer's [security] clearance should not be reinstated...
Holifield introduced a letter from AEC chairman Lewis Strauss saying that two previous AEC-private-power contracts had cost far more than originally estimated. One plant built near Paducah cost $58 million more than estimates, with annual power charges $2,000,000 higher than expected; another built near Portsmouth cost $32 million above the estimates, with annual charges increased...
...facts are," said Hickenlooper, "that when Admiral Strauss took office as chairman ... he had a search made of the chairman's office and of other places in the commission ... He found that the offices were wired for recording. Within a few days of that discovery, he had the recording equipment and system ripped out of the office. He announced that there would be no secret recordings as long as he was chairman ... I was in his office about four days after he assumed his duties. I saw the places where the secret recording devices had been installed...