Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arab-Israel war transformed this Biblical land of Edom and Moab, nearly tripling its population (now 1,500,000), adding to its territory a remnant of Arab Palestine west of the Jordan River, and swelling the capital of Amman from a scraggly town of 35,000 into a lusty, horn-tooting city of 200,000. A sophisticated and embittered lot, the West Bankers captured most of the country's commerce, filled half the 40 seats in Parliament, and poured out vituperation toward the West -at Israel, and at the U.S., which in their eyes gave their birthright...
...already paying more than 50-50, the government pointed out; with tax adjustments, the present operators have lately been paying 56-44. As to the additional "advantages" Venezuela will expect, Perez Jimenez wants concessionaires to 1) refine new-found crude in Venezuela, 2) build "open cities" instead of company-town oil camps, and 3) conserve natural...
CHURCH GIVES U.S.A. 3-D MUSIC, headlined Svenska Dagbladet). For six weeks last summer, the Skanninge Lutheran church became a studio with 20 microphones draped through holes in the ceiling. Traffic was diverted and the town hall's council chamber near by became the recording control room...
...grave doubts, seven musicians gathered in Wichita, Kans. and laid plans to start a symphony orchestra. From the employees of Wichita's aircraft builders (Boeing, Beech) and the friendly musicians' union local, they managed to collect $300. They wrote letters to some 70 other musicians in nearby towns, asking them to play the first year without pay. The infant orchestra rehearsed in a hotel ballroom, where the players had to sweep the floor themselves. That was eleven years ago. Today, the Wichita Symphony has an $80,000 yearly budget and not even the local baseball club, the Wichita...
...best song, Stranger in Paradise. Nevertheless, the score remains one of the better parts of a discouraging production. But in the last analysis, there is only one reason why anyone looking for entertainment should go to see Kismet--it is easier to get to than any other movie in town...