Word: speakers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Butler believes the Polish intelligence is the "culprit." Zinoviev accused Polish intelligence of being involved in his 1924 press conference. The diary of the speaker of the Polish Sejm from 1923 quoted the Polish Prime Minister as claiming credit for the Zinoviev Letter...
...speaker was Conductor Leonard Bernstein, and Franco is Designer-Director Franco Zeffirelli. The result of their talks created the first great occasion at the Met since it opened its season after a disastrous delay-a brand-new production of Cav and Pag (Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci), opera's beloved twin chestnuts, flossily refurbished. Though Bernstein's demanding schedule only permitted him to conduct Cav (Met Conductor Fausto Cleva did Pag), the night promised to be one to remember. Bernstein and Zeffirelli, after all, in 1964 had helped turn the Met's Falstaff into the recent decade...
...Corned-Beef Dinners. As a backbench state assemblyman beginning in 1904, he won friends among suspicious upstate legislators by entertaining them at weekly corned-beef-and-beer dinners. By 1913, he was assembly speaker, by 1918, New York's Governor. From both offices, he struggled to simplify the ramshackle state government, making New York the classic example of state administrative reform. As early as 1911, he was also engaged in the fight for social reforms (childlabor laws, maximum-work-hour legislation for women, factory safety regulations) that made New York the most advanced welfare state in the nation...
...White, the former head of tariff-writing GATT, sit on I.O.S.'s board of directors. Former German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard spurned Cornfeld's overtures, and now heads a rival mutual fund, but no less a personage than German Economics Minister Karl Schiller turned up as the main speaker last month at a pep rally for Bernie's German salesmen...
...part, Kelman-who followed Newman as a speaker at yesterday's meeting-agreed to withdraw a resolution against official Harvard participation in the Cambridge Project which he had planned to introduce at the meeting. "Now that the request for institutional participation has been withdrawn," Kelman told the Faculty, "we are prepared to withdraw our resolution-not because most of our reservations about the Cambridge Project have been answered, but because the resolution has become moot...