Word: talents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a pre-election display of forensic talent, the Cambridge City Council came out for the abolition of the Proportional Representation system of balloting, by a 5-3-1 vote...
...nuclear secrets; Harold Macmillan would push hard for such a sharing, and in the Sputnik era there seemed a fair chance that the U.S. Congress would at last approve. On a broader basis, President Eisenhower has long felt the need for an overall pooling of NATO scientific talent. At the White House dinner for Elizabeth II, he gave in his toast a key to a top Macmillan agenda item: "We have the power. The only thing to do is to put it together. Our scientists must work together. NATO should not be thought of merely as a military alliance. NATO...
Responding to the inexplicable American talent for making high-ranking visitors feel comfortably informal, Queen Elizabeth quickly relaxed before her admirers. Standing before 1,700 members of the capital's press corps (see PRESS), she began reading a prepared speech: "I am told that . . . this is one of the largest press corps in the world." Then she looked up, surveyed the multitude, ad-libbed with a generous laugh: "Looking around this room, I don't doubt that it's true...
Green Pastures: With a deft Marc Connelly adaptation of his own 27-year-old The Green Pastures, a cast of talent and dignity headed by William Warfield as The Lawd, and superb singing, direction and color sets, NBC's Hallmark Hall of Fame went into the lists against a tough one last week−CBS's go-minute electronic botch of Mike Todd's exercise in mass gaucherie at Madison Square Garden (see PEOPLE). Everything was on the side of Green Pastures−except the audience. The results, according to Trendex: Heaven, 12.5; Sodom and Gomorrah...
Misfires & Shrugs. One reason for such achievements: Adler knows music as few opera managers do: he used to be a conductor. A man of charm and inexhaustible energy, Adler spends weeks each winter combing Europe for talent, works 18 hours a day during the season. The logistics for his short season are tricky, with 31 productions of twelve operas scheduled in the San Francisco area in 38 days, and 16 performances of 13 operas set for 17 days in Southern California...