Word: strausses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...present state, La Ronde is neither as daring as publicity would indicate, nor as funny. Its ingenious sets of Vienna in 1900, however, plus Oscar Strauss' waltz "Love Makes the World Go Round" add a romantic flavor to the film, and Schnitzler's carnival of love emerges pleasantly, if not spectacularly...
...years ago at the Yale game, Peter Strauss '54 was warming the band up in front of Memorial Hall, when a "big, bruising guy came up to see me and said 'I feel like a proud papa seeing how the band has grown.'" Strauss asked him why, and Schine said, "Well I was responsible for getting the band started again after the war and it was I who persuaded Mal Holmes to start conducting it again...
TIME'S article . . . reads like a scene from an Orwellian nightmare. More and more, responsible people are coming to realize that the U.S. is becoming just as great a threat to civilization as the Soviet Union when men like Dr. Edward Teller and Lewis Strauss are allowed to play God with the H-bomb...
...this decision he sided with President Emeritus James B. Conant who was then a member of the advisory committee of scientists, and the committee chairman, David E. Lilienthal. The whole committee supported this decision but was overruled by Rear Admiral Strauss, then an AEC commissioner...
...proportion. Its effect at a distance was little, if at all, greater than that of earlier A-bomb tests. The Japanese fishermen who were burned by "death ash" were apparently victims of a local concentration of contaminated pulverized coral. Some of their burns, according to AEC Chairman Strauss, came from the chemical action of the ash. He probably meant that the coral, chiefly-calcium carbonate, had been turned by heat to quicklime, which sears human skin...