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Last week brought a harsh and sudden intensification of events. In Laos, the Pathet Lao guerrillas advanced toward Luangprabang, the royal capital. In the United Nations, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko truculently renewed the Communist offensive against Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. In Geneva, when U.S., British and Russian delegates to the nuclear-test-ban conference met again after a 3½-month recess, the Soviet delegate started off with a belligerence that appeared to rip apart the fragile little structure of agreement slowly pieced together since the talks began in October 1958 (see THE WORLD). Soviet diplomats spread the word...
...trying to talk sense to the Soviets. At U.S. request, India's Nehru passed the word along to Moscow that the U.S. was "absolutely serious" about preserving Laotian freedom. U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson pursued Nikita Khrushchev to Novosibirsk, and Secretary of State Dean Rusk called Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to Washington. They both conveyed Kennedy's personal message: the U.S. viewed Laos as a test of the Kremlin's ultimate intentions, and would not attempt to settle any other cold war issues until the Russians called off the invasion...
...Congo itself was quiet-a minimum of killings, no invasions, no kidnapings. The noise was mostly to be heard 6,400 miles away in Manhattan, where Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko put on a show in the U.N. Assembly that went pretty far even for Gromyko...
...Sholokhov piece, The Colt, is the simpler, but also the more profoundly motivated, of the two. Its hero is born in the middle of a cavalry campaign during the civil war that followed the 1917 Revolution. The Red Army soldier who owns its mother, Andrei Matreyev, curses and spits and finally decides to keep it. The squadron commander, Dmitri Parkhovomenha, blusters and shouts, and finally decides to let him keep it, too. So the colt tags along through the battle and bivouac, until the soldier is killed during an attack, while trying to save it from drowning...
...first jam session, so enthralled a young music student named Aleksandr Tsfasman that he quit Moscow Conservatory, formed his own combo, took to wearing green and maroon suits. Even the stolid Soviet government got into the act. It formed a 43-piece U.S.S.R. Jazz Band, released top Trumpeter Andrei Gorin from prison (his crime: insulting a Communist Party official), ordered him onto the bandstand. Then, as abruptly as it began, the jazz era died. The downbeater: Stalin, who ordered dzhaz outlawed in 1929 as ''a product of bourgeois degeneration...