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...Odyssey). Some items in the splurge of re-releases of "historic performances" are a delight, and this one will remind listeners that the current conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra was no mean pianist in his day. George Szell essayed the dancing mysteries of Mozart with three members of the Budapest String Quartet (Mischa Schneider, Joseph Roismann and Boris Kroyt) in 1946; Szell's playing is sharply self-assured, setting a high-spirited pace for his excellent colleagues...
...troika has its own worries, however, and no doubt also took to the rails to coordinate strategy for the conference of Communist chiefs scheduled to convene in Budapest next month. With Rumania and Yugoslavia boycotting the conference, and with a new and perhaps more freewheeling regime in Czechoslovakia, Ulbricht and Gomulka are left as the Kremlin's most trusted friends in its flagging campaign to isolate the renegade Chinese Communists. Any flop in the Budapest meeting, which is designed as a prelude to a larger assemblage in Moscow, would be a serious setback for Russian foreign policy...
...take sides in the Sino-Soviet dispute. In an effort to reassure them, the Russians have pledged that the conference would not be "a meeting designed to excommunicate the Chinese." But Ceauseşcu has turned down the Russians' invitation to a preliminary meeting next month in Budapest that will lay plans for such a conference in the autumn. Tito was not even invited; the Russians know that he favors not a Communist summit but a mammoth socialist jamboree that would include some of his non-Communist cronies, such as Egypt's Gamal Nasser...
Blurbs & Swipes. Apart from U.S. shows, however, the Iron Curtain countries still come on strong with dialectic. Television's purpose, sums up the Hungarian theoretical journal Tarsadalmi Szemle, is "agitation and propaganda in a perseveringly Marxist spirit." To that end, a typical recent night's fare in Budapest kicked off with a blurb on the activities of red-scarfed youth groups. Then followed a 15-minute commentary on Southeast Asia by an official of the party newspaper, and an unillustrated and soporific 45-minute autobiography by a 70-year-old Communist militant...
...everyone is happy about the trend. Budapest shuddered with the exposure of a private casino for party big shots at Lake Balaton, where the prizes included a nude state-airline hostess, dipped in chocolate. And not long ago a Prague newspaper complained that race tracks "seduced" Czech youth, fostered "idleness, deceit and crime." But another paper wisely bet on the party. "People today have more money than ever before," it said. "You can't blame the state for wanting a slice...