Word: cancellation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...public 1) puts "keeping the peace" far ahead of all other national issues, and 2) believes, by a margin of 7 to 5, that the Republican Party is able to keep the peace better than the Democratic Party. That 7-to-5 margin may be more than enough to cancel out any gains the Democrats can squeeze out of the missile gap. Shrewdly aware that "peace" rather than national defense is the No. 1 issue as the public sees it, Hubert Humphrey has been comparatively quiet about the missile gap, has stressed disarmament instead. "There is a real possibility...
...second widespread worry, inside and outside the Pentagon, is the possibility that Soviet advances in air defense might largely cancel out SAC's bombers before the U.S. gets around to closing the missile gap. To assure that SAC keeps ahead of Soviet air defense progress, SAC's Power and the Air Force Chief of Staff, General Thomas D. White, want to start placing orders for North American Aviation Inc.'s B70 bomber, designed to fly at three times the speed of sound. In its money requests for fiscal 1961, the Air Force asked for $464 million...
...Birgit Nilsson (TIME. Dec. 28), the Met's three Heldentenore suddenly found themselves out of voice, the victims of winter colds. (The fact that two of them, Ramon Vinay and Karl Liebl, had been panned by critics after earlier appearances might have also affected their health.) Rather than cancel a sold-out performance, Met General Manager Rudolf Bing resorted to a technique normally used by Casey Stengel and the New York Yankees, sent in each tenor for a single act. "Fortunately," added Bing, "there are only three acts...
Chilean-born Tenor Vinay, 46, had originally been scheduled to sing the role. At noon he called the Met to cancel. German-born Tenor Liebl, 44, who subbed for Vinay at the season's first Tristan, in which Soprano Nilsson scored her dramatic triumph, phoned the Met at 2 to say that he, too, was in no condition to go on. U.S.-born Tenor Albert Da Costa. 33, phoned in at 4 with the same report. With no other Wagnerian tenors available, Bing gave Vinay the first act, Liebl the second and Da Costa the third. Backstage was Throat...