Word: previously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...level set by the market (support price: $1.12 per bu.). But instead of cutting surplus production, as Benson unswervingly predicted, the no-control formula encouraged farmers to raise a bumper crop. And, as Benson's own department admitted last week, it swamped by 600 million bushels the previous all-time corn record set in 1958. Reason: farmers boosted production to make up for lower prices. Result: more corn to add to the $9 billion Government-stored crop surplus. In 1960 the taxpayers of the U.S. will pay out $1 billion for storage and interest alone...
Further, he wanted: 1) continuing Soviet proofs of good international intentions; 2) previous agreement among the Western powers "on the questions to be dealt with and the common position they will take on each item"; 3) "personal contact between Mr. Khrushchev and myself." Happily, added the general, Khrushchev has agreed to visit Paris in March. So after that, say in May, a summit meeting would be in order...
...voice of the sweetness and brilliance of our heavens!" wrote the Carriere della Sera critic. Voted one of Italy's ten most beautiful women, Soprano Moffo was soon singing in major European opera houses, was signed by the Chicago Lyric Opera in 1957. She had turned down two previous offers from the Met on the ground that the proposed schedule demanded too much of her time. (This season she will appear also in the Met's Faust and Marriage of Figaro...
Kabalevsky's conducting stint last week was the high point for a touring musical contingent from Russia, including Composers Dmitry Shostakovich, Konstantin Dankevich, Tikhon Khrennikov, Fikret Amirov, and Music Critic Boris Yarustovsky. As they were on their previous stops-Washington,. San Francisco, Los Angeles, Louisville, Philadelphia, New York -the Russians were strenuously entertained in Boston. As usual, they gave no individual interviews, uttered polite platitudes about music. What distinguished the Boston visit was the obvious affection the visitors had for the Boston Symphony, the first U.S. orchestra to tour Russia (in 1956), and for its Russian-born or Russian...
...know better than the Opies, a British husband-and-wife team whose previous exegesis of juvenile literature produced the authoritative Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (TIME, Sept. 24, 1951). This time the Opies left the library to listen on school grounds. For eight years they hunted rhymes, rites and riddles among 5,000 children at 70 schools throughout the British Isles. Delighted to teach adults something, children unbuttoned their lips...