Word: acte
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Friday the Assembly recessed. The session, begun last September, had made the U.N.'s most significant decision since its establishment in 1945, to wit, that the veto-free Assembly could act against aggression whenever a veto blocked the Security Council. But it closed on a note of evasion, not firmness, without applying its new power against flagrant Chinese Communist aggression...
...Communist threats underlined the choice facing the Brussels conference: it could either back down and leave Europe defenseless, or it could act swiftly before the Communists translated threats into action. The conference seemed determined to act. At the end of the first day, the conferees announced plans to form a 1,000,000-man force by the end of 1953, including 55 to 60 divisions under Supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower (formally appointed this week...
...Killer." Last week Robbins Landon completed a Haydn Society coup he was sure would become a major musical event: the recording of Haydn's last opera, Orfeo ed Euridice, a four-act work that has never been staged...
...tackling Faust, Bing and Tudor had reversed a 31-year Met precedent. In 1919, principally because Faust seemed entirely long enough (three hours) without it, the Met had dropped the 17-minute Walpurgis Night bacchanale that opens the fourth act. Most European opera companies (Paris is one exception) also ignore the number. But to Manager Bing, the ballet in which Helen of Troy, Cleopatra and other famous beauties appear at the summons of Mephistopheles to tempt Faust seemed an integral part of the opera...
When Congress passed the Defense Production Act, which provides for wage & price controls, the farm bloc built high food prices into the law by exempting farm products from price control until they sell at parity* or above. As additional protection, ceilings on farm products must be set at parity or the highest price in the month before the Korean invasion, whichever is higher...