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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 21, 1977
South Pacific |
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ON BROADWAY there are avents and then there are EVENTS. And seldom has there been such an EVENT as the opening on April 7, 1949, of "South Pacific."Rodgers and Hammerstein were at peak, with "Oklahoma" and "Carousel" behind them.Mary Martin had signed on, fresh from playing Annie Oakley, Ezio Pinza, the era's leading bass and a consummate Don Giovanni, had agredd to cross the bridge from opera to Broadway... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - February 27, 1977
Out of the Shadow Of Segregation |
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HISTORIAN Rayford W. Logan grew up in Washington early in this century - at a time when blacks were barred from downtown hotels, restaurants and barber shops. Theaters only admitted blacks to upstairs segregated sections.In 1912, when Woodrow Wilson was elected and Logan was 15, conditions grew worse. Black and white employees in the Post Office and Treasury departments were given separate work areas. Blacks were forbidden to eat with whites or use the same toilets. Wilson dismissed all...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - November 27, 1977
Spain's Lagging Democracy |
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Two years after Francisco Franco's death, the world's worst fears that the dictator's passing would plunge Spain into chaos have proven wrong. But the buildup of long-frustrated hopes has raised the threat of future conflict and makes the country's budding democracy seem like a house of cards."At least when Franco was alive we lived with the hope that things would get better when he was gone," remarked a leftist Madrid... |
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Washington Post, The (DC) - October 19, 1977
A Match Where They Met Their Master |
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"Are you Russian?" one of the spectators asked the tall, distinguished looking, quiet man who had been watching the intense, complicated chess game between Anatoly Karpov and Washington master Eugene Meyer."I am not only Russian," replied the genial Anatolly Dobrynin, "I am Ambassador."Ambassador or not, Dobrynin stood up for more than four hours while he watched world champion Karpov play 25 games simultaneously...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - September 25, 1977
Anne Schuldt, Former Aide on Hill |
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Anne Varnon Schuldt, 86, who had worked as a secretary for two Alabama congressmen and two District of Columbia bankers, died Monday of cancer at the Potomac Valley Nursing Home.Mrs. Schuldt had cancer for two years, according to relatives, but never told anyone. "She didn't want to be bothered with chemotherapy and didn't want anyone worrying about it," a grandniece, Paula Chalfant, said."She was a dynamic woman. She rolled...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - August 6, 1977
Job Security Key Issue in Looming C&P Strike |
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Although the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. transmit millions of conversations every day, there are relatively few words to be heard in its office nowdays.In the company's old downtown office on 13th Street NW, large gray banks of electronic switching equipment click and whirr. The machines are tended most of the time by just three rather quiet technicians.As C&P parent company, the giant American Telephone & Telegraph Co., and its...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - July 27, 1977
Coal and the Global Greenhouse |
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SHOULD COAL BE THE major fuel of the future?President Carter thinks so, but there are many problems down that path. Some of the difficulties have been illuminated in legislative debates over clean air, strip mining, slurry pipelines, and benefits for victims of black-lung disease. But these problems are dwarfed by one which a committee of the National Academy of Sciences has just warned about. According to that panel, long-term reliance on fossil fuels, coal, oil and natural gas could...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - February 14, 1977
Saudis Look West to Invest Year's $17 Billion Surplus |
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Saudi Arabia is anticipating another big surge in income this year from increased oil production at higher prices but is planning to invest the money rather than spend it.In fact, the government, already earning more money than it can put to use, has adopted a policy of restraints on spending in an effort to curb domestic inflation.Nobody seems to know just how much money the government will take in this year because of uncertainty about how much oil will be exported.But it is...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - February 13, 1977
It Pays to Plan Ahead for The Winter Charms of Alsace |
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As far as I know, there are no travel posters urging Americans to spend Christmas in Alsace. Certainly there aren't very many tourists who do, which is one of the charms of traveling out of season. Another lure, a bit of unnecessary romanticism considering the winter we've had here, was the possibility of snow. A third was that fall and early winter, the season for game, is an exciting time to visit French restaurants.We found it all: an absence of tourists, a...
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Washington Post, The (DC) - December 20, 1977
Egypt Optimistic About Begin's Visit |
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Egyptian officials believe that President Anwar Sadat would not have agreed to his Christmas Day meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin unless he was confident that the talks would produce positive results.Because of this value sense of optimism, Egyptians were cautiousin reacting to preliminary reports of Begin's peace proposals, even though most officials regard the Israeli leader's ideas in their present form as little more than a starting point for... |
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