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Before Japan can cross the threshold to full membership, two-thirds of GATT's 34 members must approve her entry. Seventeen nations, including the U.S., already have signed or are negotiating contracts with Japan under the GATT regulations...
...high-caliber opera workshops are evidence of a demand for opera that eventually may bring about more truly professional productions. Says Composer Dello Joio: "We're on the threshold of a real American theater. We haven't had our Verdis and Wagners yet. It is inevitable in the next twenty years...
...four powers had sat down for nearly 400 such discussions before. But this was different. Last week, the week in which two-thirds of Germany got its freedom, the four occupying powers in Austria agreed on terms that carried Nazi Germany's first victim to the threshold of the "liberation" promised to it by the wartime Allies twelve years before...
...Huckleberry Finns: Shmulik the Orphan, Gergeleh the Thief, and Feivel the Lip. The boys glory in three maxims: 1) "Always disobey your parents," 2) "Be sure to hate your teacher," 3) "Never fear the Lord." His death in 1916 prevented Author Aleichem from carrying his boyhood story over the threshold of manhood, but even as it stands, The Great Fair is a charmingly apt epitaph for the Yiddish Mark Twain...
...Genetic mutations will definitely occur, as soon as they cross the threshold into the radioactive danger zone," said Paul M. Doty, associate professor of Chemistry...