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Last month, at the request of President Kennedy, Goldberg intervened in the complex, personality-ridden battle between the musicians and management of the Metropolitan Opera that had led General Manager Rudolf Bing to throw up his hands and cancel the 1961-62 season. Both sides agreed to go on with the season and leave their differences up to an arbitrator-but only if the arbitrator was Goldberg...
...still persisted in spots: the conservative Nihon Keizai Shimbun wistfully editorialized that "our fondest hope is for the U.S. to reconsider its decision on resumption, and by so doing compel Russia to follow suit." But even Zengakuren, the extreme leftist student organization whose screaming mobs forced President Eisenhower to cancel his trip to Japan a year ago, turned about and labeled the Russian decision "Stalinist power diplomacy," and began gathering a nationwide petition of protest signatures to deliver to the Russian embassy...
...forced to drop its Record-of-the-Month recordings with the Met, causing -the musicians to lose $1,000 a year apiece.) The union itself, said orchestra members, stood "aghast" at the committee's proposals. But most of the musicians seemed convinced that management would capitulate rather than cancel the season and jeopardize its eagerly awaited 1964 move to a new opera house in Lincoln Center...
...which will probably wind up at Harvard) to his fourth wife. "I repose complete confidence in my beloved wife Mary," it continued, "to provide for [my three children by previous marriages] according to written instructions I have given her." Literary style of the testament: a stilted legalese ("I hereby cancel, annul and revoke . . ."), presumably cribbed from previous wills and marred by the misspelling, "siezed...
...good neighbors." Some 3,000 Japanese leftists waved red flags in approval, while a smaller group of Japanese rightists jeered: "Go home, Red Devil!" Both groups were outnumbered by the riot police. Fearful of trouble from the same sort of excitable Japanese crowds that had caused President Eisenhower to cancel a visit last summer, some 6,500 police were on hand to protect Mikoyan...