Word: procession
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...music world's most talented and tempestuous diva, Manhattan-born Soprano Maria Meneghini Callas, winged from Italy to touch native soil for the first time since she held eight outnumbered process servers to a draw in a Chicago Civic Opera House fracas (TIME, Nov. 21). Sued for $300,000 by a Manhattan attorney who keeps on claiming that she owes him 10% of her earnings since he launched her in 1947 (when she scaled almost 200 Ibs.), slim (5 ft. 7 in., 132 Ibs.) Maria will make her Metropolitan Opera debut late this month. No process servers greeted...
...fish business. Up to then fish shippers had been turning out a slow-frozen, cold-storage product that looked like fish and often tasted like mush. In vesting $7 in buckets of brine, blocks of ice and an electric fan, Birdseye started to quick-freeze fish. Birdseye's process turned out well; his finances, however, were not equal to the strain of setting up a large manufacturing and distributing organization, and he went broke. Unfazed. he hocked his life insurance and gambled again. This time he won; in 1929 Birdseye. who now had powerful backers, sold his General Seafoods...
Just a year ago, Birdseye returned to the U.S. after two years in Peru, with another triumph to his credit: a method of converting sugar cane wastes to paper pulp in twelve minutes v. nine hours for the old process. Though he suffered from heart trouble and had to lead a strictly regulated life for the past 20 years, he said: "Still other ventures are afoot, and the days are not long enough for me to take advantage of all the opportunities...
...coming of spring, the change which ensued in the relations between nations was sometimes called the thaw. For a while the only visible manifestation of the thaw was a general fading, ungluing, cracking of power positions on both sides of the Iron Curtain. In the Soviet empire the melting process has produced popular uprising and high-level confusion as to how the empire should be managed (see below). In the free world it has showed itself in the nagging vitality of NATO, Iceland's decision to get rid ot U.S. troops, the division and rancors among the allies over...
...Graduate School of Arts and Sciences should expand its enrollment and also alter the process of attaining the Doctoral degree, John P. Elder, dean of the Graduate School, maintained last week...