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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greeted Giovanni Gronchi with unusual warmth and attention. Gronchi had consultations with Eisenhower, dined and wined with Dulles and Nixon, talked international labor with the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s George Meany. Guards of honor presented arms when Gronchi laid a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and the National Gallery of Art stayed open after closing time to accommodate Gronchi's handsome signora. At the gallery Gronchi told his guides how much he admired its selections from the work of his countryman, Fra Angelico, and then he made a comment about the U.S. that was calculated...
...kept pursuing planes from landing by strewing logs and oil drums on the strips; at length the government, more embarrassed than harassed, loaded 700 soldiers aboard a river boat at the Amazon delta and steamed to the at tack. Veloso and Lameirao thereupon took off from Santarem for parts unknown, apparently to hide for a time, then seek new adherents or safe exile...
...hurry is William Holden, and he has no doubt where he is going. He is going to make a million dollars. He is going to make his first independent picture, a movie called Toward the Unknown, about a jet flyer, and the reason he is racing his engine is that half the population of Hollywood is hell-bent in the same exciting direction. The movie colony is now off, like a merrily misguided missile, on another of its whilom whooshes toward the unknown. Spang in the middle of a firm prosperity, the production pattern of three decades is dissolving...
...much effect this reminiscence had when Gertrude S. got together with Virgil T. in 1946 to write their third major opera is unknown. The influence of the indefatigable Miss Anthony, whose 86-year life span is the opera's subject, seems certain. Librettist Gertrude S. hints at the link in Scene Four of The Mother of Us All: "If people are rich," says Susan B., "they do not listen to anybody; if they are poor, they listen; but all they perceive is the fact that they are listening. As for me, there is no wealth nor poverty, as long...
...most recent ice hockey games at the heatless Watson Rink. They were not only cold, but also confused because the HAA has apparently decided that a loud speaker system is unnecessary at games it considers of minor interest. So penalties, pucks, points and players raced by, unannounced and often unknown...