Word: attendant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early in June it was decided that Khrushchev should attend the celebrations of the 250th anniversary of Leningrad. Immediately, Molotov began maneuvering. According to one version, he invited Zhukov to his dacha, appealed to him for army support at an extraordinary Presidium meeting, citing the danger to the whole defense setup if Khrushchev's reckless policies prevailed. (Zhukov instead privately tipped off Khrushchev that a plot was brewing.) Then Malenkov, Molotov or Kaganovich (one or all three) demanded a meeting of the Presidium. Khrushchev is said to have agreed, but when the Presidium met on June...
...diplomatic relations with that satellite. No man to allow international politics to take precedence over the higher imperatives of sport, Brundage fired his ire to newsmen: "Just imagine the blow to U.S. Olympic prestige! Why, if the president of the International Committee is unable to attend an important meeting, the United States might as well drop out of the games." Outlook by week's end: Brundage will get his passport...
...period. "The audience gets the critics it deserves. And on the whole they are responsible men. The trouble comes from their impact on the commercial aspects of theatre. But they are important go-betweens in the theatre experience." He wished, however, that critics could "get behind a performance," could attend rehearsals and so forth, so that they would really know exactly who was responsible for what in the finished production...
Those wishing to attend the performance should sign up at the social office in Greys Hall before 4 p.m. this afternoon. They may obtain discount tickets there. The cars will leave Thayer Gate...
...this year's impressive attractions: the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Royal Opera Ballet of Stockholm. The Spanish government underwrites the festival's annual deficit of 2,000,000 pesetas (some $60,000), pegs prices so low that fishermen and day laborers by the thousands can attend...