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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Again the Chorus. When at last the driver of the ZIS fought his way through to Myslewicki Palace, where the Nixons were to stay, nearby windows and balconies were jammed, and at least a thousand members of the crowd managed to shove their way into the courtyard. And as Dick and Pat Nixon stood on the steps waving, the roaring chorus rose again: "Bravo, Americans...
More than 48,000 of the area's 212,000 natives today are Catholics-and hundreds of youngsters have been baptized "Leo," in Arkfeld's honor. In the 340 mission schools taught by 34 white and 393 native teachers, almost a thousand pupils learn the three Rs, taught in pidgin English. The vicariate also has two maternity clinics, a 400-bed hospital for lepers, a sawmill, machine shops and a cathedral at Wewak-New Guinea's first since the war -built in concrete and hardwoods...
...From President George Romney came a beaming report of April-June earnings of $2.70 a share, more than double last year's performance. American's nine-month earnings for fiscal 1959 ($8.36 a share) are running three times ahead of last year, came within only a few thousand dollars of the $50 million profit forecast for the whole year. In South Bend, Studebaker-Packard President Harold E. Churchill gave his fast-selling Lark full credit for the company's earnings of $1.87 a share for the half year, v. last year's loss...
...steel worth $300 million, plus $70 million in steel wages and an estimated $21 million in industry profits. The drain is affecting satellite industries. Around the country, of the 35,000 workers laid off in industries depending on steel, 9,000 were truckers, more than 10,000 railroadmen, several thousand seamen (on the Great Lakes. 300 broad-beamed ore carriers dropped anchor). This week at least another 30,000 nonsteel workers will be idled; next week the number will grow by far more than that. If the strike lasts 30 days, Mississippi's Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. will have...
...this, of course, takes us far from the lecherous nobleman of Mozart and da Ponte, with his thousand and three mistresses. (One suspects that the Don Juan story figures in the play less as its actual inspiration than as a unifying device, a splendid resource for theatrical and intellectual trickery, and a handy handle to pick the whole thing up by.) It was not the sexual aspect of Don Juan that interested Shaw primarily. (Indeed, it was not the sexual aspect of anything, even of sex, that interested Shaw primarily, in spite of occasional protestations to the contrary.) "Philosophically," says...