Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Softened Version. Next day the effort paid off. Stephens invited McDonald to meet with him privately at a Pittsburgh hotel. Said he, when the labor leader entered: "Dave, I'm here for an agreement." By day's end the two men had compromised their final difficulty: Stephens cut his five-year contract demand in return for a softened version of the weekend premium plan. In negotiations last week in Manhattan, the technical details were worked out. The major ele ments in the settlement: ¶ For the industry: a threeyear, no-strike contract, the first in 20 years...
...Invited a second presidential veto by sending to the President a second version of a $2 billion military construction bill without removing the feature the President did not like-congressional authority to pass on military housing projects. CJ Passed and sent to the White House a compromise public-housing bill providing for 70,000 federally financed low-rent housing units within the next two years...
...hand to cover the wedding for a picture magazine. The romantic field is soon winnowed down to Millionaire Crosby and Reporter Sinatra. Grace gets tight and thaws visibly. She dives into a swimming pool fully clad, and is fished out by the reporter (in the original version, they went swimming nude together), an episode which somehow persuades her that her ex-husband Crosby is O.K., or "yare." after...
...King and I. A lavish and bouncy musical version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway hit, expertly played by Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr (TIME, July...
...musically first-rate. Handel was an infallible judge of what singers love to do and should be asked to do. This tale from Ovid was evidently a favorite with him, for he did three settings of it and even plagiarized from it for other works. Schmidt chose the second version with words by John Gay of Beggar's Opera fame. The charming soprano and tenor solos were beautifully handled by Sarah-Jane Smith and Antonio Giarraputo...