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...Paris' Hotel Majestic this week with a conspicuous lack of pomp. No parades will march up the Champs-Elysées; no balls will be held at Versailles; there will be nothing to equal the splendor the French lavished within the past year on the visits of Leonid Brezhnev and Queen Elizabeth. Indeed, the only glitter will come from a modest gala in the Elysée Palace's gilt-and-tapestry Salle des Fêtes on Thursday night...
...week's end, an exuberant Balanchine was discussing the Bolshoi's request that he "give" them several of his ballets, most especially Symphony in C. That would mean, among other things, his returning in the near future to polish the productions himself. "Maybe when Nixon and Brezhnev next meet, they should discuss my coming back," he said with obvious relish and a great flourish of a glass of Mukuzani wine...
...establish hegemony" in the Asia-Pacific area, a seeming rebuff to Moscow. But the Japanese are learning to play four-power politics too. Just before Premier Tanaka left for Peking, Tokyo coyly let it be known that he had written a warm letter to Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev, emphasizing that Japan wanted to develop close relations with Russia, as well as with China...
President Nixon and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromvko were said to have discussed the prospective Brezhnev visit during their talks of camp David Monday...
...smile to congratulate Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov on the Russians' surprise victory over the U.S. in Olympic basketball. Then he was driven to a big yellow villa in the Lenin Hills near Moscow State University to await the beginning of talks with Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev and other top Kremlin leaders. Kissinger's early optimism proved justified. By the time he left Moscow four days later, he had helped reach agreement toward the largest trade pact between the two nations since World...