Word: programing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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SQUARE-JAWED Hayato Ikeda, 60, is a hard man with a yen and a free man with his tongue. Back in 1951, as Finance Minister under Premier Shigeru Yoshida, he stirred up a storm by suggesting that if peasants could not afford rice under his austerity program, "then let them eat barley." A year later, while waging war on the black market, he lost his post as Trade Minister for remarking that "if black marketeers are driven to suicide by my methods, it can't be helped...
...cooperate in some form of international control over wild price fluctuations. In January 1958 Assistant Secretary Rubottom announced that price support would be "unwieldy and unworkable"; in May Vice President Nixon was stoned in Peru and Venezuela; the following month the U.S. joined an international coffee study program. Now, in offering $500 million worth of help for social needs, the U.S. has made a similar about-face, on the heels of new fears that the influence of Nikita Khrushchev may spread across the neglected hemisphere. The trouble with this policy is that the U.S. pays the bills but its enemies...
...Office Glitter. Tibbett always had a faint distrust of grand opera's grand pretensions. The music of Jerome Kern, he used to argue, was as good as many an imported classic. When critics roasted him for including Old Man River in a program of operatic excerpts, he responded by including it in almost every recital he sang after that. He also laced his concert programs with popular tranquilizers-De Glory Road, Gwine to Hebb'n, At Dawning. Tibbett probably made more money than his contemporaries because he was the first to exploit the box-office glitter...
Future performances include organist Andrea Marchal, July 27, and folksingers Oscar Brand and Joan Baez, Aug. 4. In last week's program, violinist Ruth Posselt and pianist Luise Vosgerchian presented a program of four sonatas...
Later in the program, Dr. Richard Mann, Chairman, Boston Congress on Racial Equality, spoke on "Student Action and Civil Rights Progress." At this time he urged students to follow their convictions as their consciences dictate...