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...York City has long taken pride, of a sort, in the fact that it has more Jews than Tel Aviv, about as many Irish as Dublin, almost as many Italians as Rome. Now, according to an analysis of 1960 census figures released last week, it has more Puerto Ricans (612,574) than San Juan...
...music before I was born." Both his parents taught piano in Buenos Aires, where Daniel became"just another pupil" when he was five. He did not remain so for long. By the time he was nine, he had given recitals in Argentina and Europe, and was performing in Tel Aviv, where his parents had settled. He won the first America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship to study in Europe, and at 13 became the youngest student in the history of Rome's Academy of Santa Cecilia to win a master's degree. Hearing of the prodigy. Artur Rubinstein several...
...Casals, a sprightly 84, brought concertgoers leaping from their rough-hewn seats in a rising ovation. The aging artist beamed. "Where did all those people come from?" he asked. They came from Haifa to the north, from kibbutzim in the shadow of Mount Carmel, from army headquarters in Tel Aviv-and they came chiefly to hear Pablo Casals...
...Ghost" Trio) by Violinist Stern, Pianist Eugene Istomin and Cellist Leonard Rose were the high points of Israel's month-long festival. But there were other triumphs. Staged at seven sites from Haifa to the Revivim kibbutz, the festival drew 56,000 people to 23 concerts. In Tel Aviv, 500 music lovers who could not squeeze into the already-packed 3,000-seat Mann Auditorium were chased by police from a parapet outside the second floor. In Jerusalem, an opening-night crowd of 3,500 stood politely when Israeli President Izhak Ben-Zvi entered, then burst into thunderous applause...
Relaxing in shorts and bare feet, Israel's prickly Premier David Ben-Gurion, 74, celebrated the eve of the 5,722nd (since the Creation) Jewish New Year by peering into his crystal ball for a Tel Aviv tabloid. "I am no prophet," cautioned Ben-Gurion as he hunched knees to chin, yoga style, to prophesy, "but if what we call the cold war is ended-and I hope it will be without the world exploding-in 20 years America will be a welfare state and Russia will be a democratic country...