Word: unveils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week Giscard took to TV again to unveil the newest addition to his anti-inflation arsenal: for the first time in 34 years, France will have a balanced budget in 1965. Moreover, he reported, the stabilization plan had cut the consumer-price-index increase in one year to 2.9% v. the 4.9% rise the year before without any appreciable brake on the economy's overall growth. In the new budget, government credits for badly needed superhighways will increase by 26%, investment in France's antiquated telephone system will go up 11.5% and minimum old-age pensions will...
...which the gallery force had christened "Mona's kimona"), when a courtly ceremony took place in Washington's National Gallery. Italian Chargé d'Affaires Gian Luigi Milesi Ferretti, Chief Justice Earl Warren and Attorney General Robert Kennedy stood before a throng of art enthusiasts to unveil two small paintings on wood illustrating the labors of Hercules by the 15th century Italian painter Pollaiuolo, recently recovered in California after having been stolen from the Uffizi by the Nazis during World...
...anemic student orchestra, the first five minutes of the performance were petrifying. The sound of Giannini's Frescobaldiana, which received its New England premiere Friday, rolled out bigger, smoother, and more controlled than anything we could remember the HRO emitting before. Difficult transitions--full orchestra dropping away to unveil a quartet of woodwinds--passed in untroubled succession. Massive string sections--nine violas and eleven cellos--luxuriated in lush tone. A fine solo on the English horn by Barbara Cohen introduced the second movement. And Swoboda provided the histrionics on the podium that are among the reasons for going...
...Boston's Prudential Center, which will convert a blighted Back Bay railroad yard to the 52-story New England headquarters of the Prudential Insurance Co., a 1,000-room hotel, a 5,800-seat auditorium, gardens, a skating rink and swimming pool. In Washington this week, NASA will unveil the master plan for its man-in-space research center outside Houston, a complex of 49 buildings, training fields and mock-up lunar landscapes for practice landings. Building begins in May, will finish by late...
...wrist-slapping resolution (see THE HEMISPHERE). Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon and Budget Director David Bell brought along the fiscal 1963 budget. Kennedy approved a budget that is in balance at more than $92 billion, and $3 billion higher than this year's. Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman arrived to unveil his "new agricultural program...