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...nearly ten minutes the bravos echoed through the cavernous hall; finally the judges, in violation of the contest rules, permitted Cliburn to return to the stage for a second bow. Then the orchestra rose and joined the ovation. Backstage, the jurors, including famed Russian Pianist Emil Gilels, embraced Cliburn. Alexander Goldenweiser, octogenarian dean of Russian pianists, kept repeating one word: "Genius!" Hearing the news, the New York Philharmonic promptly signed Cliburn for four Manhattan concerts in the winter...
...increasing disenchantment with the French. The palace announced last week that at long last the King had become "reconciled" to Abd el Krim, the fanatically anti-French Moroccan rebel of the 1921-26 Rif wars, who until now has preferred to live in exile in Egypt rather than to bow to a King he insisted was nothing more than a French puppet. Abd el Krim, now a withered 76, will henceforth receive a pension from the Moroccan government for his past "inestimable services...
...Abandon the Big Four commitment to reunite Germany, a responsibility affirmed at Yalta and Potsdam, and confirmed by solemn promise of the Russians at the 1955 summit meeting in Geneva. ¶ Bow to the Russian demand that seats on important U.N. committees be equally divided between Communist and non-Communist governments. ¶ Accept a summit meeting agenda "so formulated that virtually every item-nine out of eleven-implies acceptance of a basic Soviet thesis that the Western powers reject...
Calypso & Poverty. The 1,600-mile bow of islands joined by the federation would all fit tidily inside Massachusetts. Their total population is about 3,000,000. They are studded with depressing poverty and unemployment, but they are richly individualistic...
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