Word: although
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Well-Meaning Giant. Although the USIA leaks, if they were to be believed beyond other tests, documented Kennedy's case, they did not entirely refute Nixon's, if by "prestige" he meant esteem and popularity. The polls showed that the U.S. is still highly popular, as compared with Russia, even among people who think that Russia is more powerful...
...volunteer travelers, fishing boats, and roundabout from South America and Europe through unwatched commercial mails. Editor Jorge Zayas, aggressive heir to a publishing dynasty and grandson of a former President of Cuba, plans to add Miami social notes to the paper's steady diet of Cuban colony news. Although an estimated 7,500 copies of Avance reach Cuba every week (at least 2,500 are confiscated or dumped by fearful agents), Zayas cannot estimate the actual readership because, he reports, some copies have found their way back to Miami so read, reread and worn out that they seem almost...
...youngest conductor ever to open a Met season) whipped his orchestra through the score at a soprano-searing pace. The sets by Teo Otto and Wolfgang Roth were contradictory in style: an ornate realistic idol in one scene, a starkly abstract grillwork in another. Although it took in a record $91,482 at the box office, the Met's new Nabucco was not likely to join vintage Verdi in the regular repertory. One reason was suggested by Arrigo Boito, the great librettist of Verdi's old age. The music would never be as powerfully appealing, Boito felt...
During 1961-62, however, salary expenses and other costs will go up again, Dean Bundy predicted, so that a tuition increase will become necessary. Although no figures have been confirmed, the hike may be in the range...
...University still has the largest endowment of any educational institution in the nation. In the middle of August, the market value of securities held totaled nearly $621 million, although the recent stock market decline has some-what lessened this figure...