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...Christmas ballet is brought to life by an international cast that includes New York City Ballet Stars Edward Villella (as the Prince), Melissa Hayden (the Sugar Plum Fairy) and Patricia McBride (Klara). Also featured will be members of the Stuttgart Opera, Copen hagen's Royal Opera, and the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Franz Allers...
...skeptical of "free world" rhetoric. But, as Scheer said in his speech at the demonstration, those who employ that rhetoric have a duty to be consistent. It was not courteous to refer to Krushchev as "the butcher of Budapest." But if Krushchev was the butcher of Budapest then McNamara and Johnson are the butchers of Vietnam. If my hypothetical Moscow U. students would have been profoundly in order "physically confronting" Krushchev, then 800 Harvard students were profoundly in order in physically confronting McNamara. Talk of "courtesy" is in the worst taste when butchery is the issue...
When the bus resumed its trip from Vienna to Budapest, TIME'S third overseas news tour was officially under way. In 1963 another group of U.S. business and civic leaders had traveled through Western Europe and Russia. Last year a contingent went to six Southeast Asian countries. TIME'S aim in setting up these trips is to provide leading American businessmen with a direct experience of a major foreign area. To the trade-hungry Communists of Eastern Europe, the latest tour looked like a possible answer to their economic woes, but the U.S. group was far from...
...year, and a briefing session with U.S. Ambassador to France Charles ("Chip") Bohlen, U.S. Ambassador to Germany George McGhee, and the Permanent U.S. Representative to NATO, Ambassador Harlan Cleveland. The group then boarded the TIME-chartered Pan Am 727 for the flight to Vienna and the bus ride to Budapest, the only overland part of the trip...
...conversations did not end with government officials and U.S. ambassadors. At every stop, the group invited 60 or more outstanding citizens to dinner. They met ballerinas in Warsaw, poets in Budapest, movie stars in Prague, and university professors and journalists everywhere. And the tour left time for the travelers to explore on their own. In Warsaw, two or three visited a Polish university center for a three-hour talk with some of the students. In Budapest, on the tenth anniversary of the Hungarian revolution, some of the tour members heard Liszt's moving Coronation Mass sung at historic Matthias...