Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Besides this amended, small-scale version of Ike's original aerial inspection plan, Stassen had two other proposals...
...reconciled with a House bill passed last year simply restoring rigid 90% supports. At his news conference President Eisenhower expressed the hope that the conference committee would produce a good bill, and carefully avoided discussion of a veto. But he left no doubt about his opinion of the Senate version. "I don't think it is a good bill," he said. "I don't think it is workable. I think it would bury the farmers under surpluses that they couldn't stand, and it would break the prices still further...
...Approved a resolution establishing the Booker T. Washington National Monument at Washington's birthplace in Franklin County, 25 miles south of Roanoke, Va. As sent to the President, the bill authorized $200,000 for developing a 537-acre tract where now stands a reconstructed version of the one-room cabin where Booker Washington was born a slave on April...
Only Playwright-Actor-Producer Noel Coward managed to give the door a backspin. After two shows (Together with Music, Blithe Spirit), Sponsor Ford Motor Co. decided Coward was "too sophisticated" and vetoed his third show, a version of his 1943 play Present Laughter, scheduled for May. Said Coward amiably: "If they don't like it, I'll do another for them. After all, I've written 26 plays and it shouldn't take long to whip out a new one." Mollified, Ford settled for a TV interpretation of Coward's superpatriotic This Happy Breed...
...have the advantage over the harpsichord, in the ability to "sing" a melody. Gould never succeeds in achieving a cantabile style, but seems like a pianist imitating the sound of a harpsichord. While this record does not displace Ralph Kirkpatrick's superlative harpsichord performance, it is the best piano version of a masterpiece...