Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this spring's Gulbenkian Festival in that city. As for the New Orleans piece, Milhaud was plainly puzzled; Torkanowsky, he said, had told him only that the performance of it had been "delayed." When the composer heard about Torkanowsky's public statement, he merely snorted, "Silly!" -and went back to work...
...oldest son, who testified for his father. What particularly bothered her was a growing feeling that, since her husband had been divorced once, her marriage was adulterous. It was a bit late, considering the fact that they had been married since 1953 and had five children, but she went ahead and wrote to the Rev. David Antion, a minister of the church, to ask: Was her marriage valid? "In God's eyes and according to the Bible," wrote back Antion, "the present state would be adulterous." Four months later, she moved out of the house...
...March issue of Ramparts was only part way out last week. Newsstand copies went on sale two weeks ago, but 145,000 subscription copies of the magazine were still piled up at the printers in Denver. Reason: Ramparts had run out of money. The post office wouldn't accept its checks, and its subscription-service company wouldn't produce the necessary address labels until a start was made toward clearing up debts of between $20,000 and $25,000. In desperation, Ramparts sent out telegrams and letters to selected subscribers, asking them to chip in at least...
...order. The Fed, to dampen the U.S. economy and provide some antidote to the balance of payments deficit, decided on an increase in the discount rate. The rate, which represents the cost to commercial banks of borrowing Federal Reserve money and thus affects their own rates to customers, went from 41 to 5%. The increase meant higher interest rates on loans, less available mortgage money and, just as the Fed intended, a hold-down on all but necessary spending because borrowed money would be more costly. That, for now, was the extent of the gold panic's effect...
...seat-of-the-pants competition, two of Alaska's pioneer bush airlines have joined forces and moved toward the jet age. Wien Alaska and Northern Consolidated Airlines, with total revenues of $12 million, this month merged their 8,500-mile routes, named the company Wien Alaska Airlines, and went public...