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...relic of one of Europe's finest opera houses into what is very likely the best opera house in the world, and in an opening festival that will not end until New Year's Eve, the general German mourning over the assassination of President Kennedy could cancel only a single night's perform ance. Tickets sold quickly for as much as $125 a performance, and though a feeble Meistersinger drew grouchy reactions from the press, the patrons of opera who could afford to attend found the experience a joy reminiscent of la belle epoque...
Gordon Boyce, executive director of the Experiment for International Living, which is co-sponsoring the trip with the U.S. Council on Student Travel, said yesterday, "It had never occurred to us to cancel the trip. We believe that it is very important for Soviets to be invited into American homes...
...Wehmut, the sweet melancholy that Germans usually lavish on such occasions. Instead, he launched into a withering attack on President Kennedy's proposal to sell wheat to Russia, calling it a fickle expedient that was inconsistent with Washington's demand last winter that West German in dustrialists cancel a deal to sell pipeline to Moscow. Demanding that the entire subject of East-West trade be reviewed by the NATO Council, Adenauer insisted that the wheat would ultimately help the Russians fight the West, and he echoed a crack he had made in Mu nich earlier: "Only the stupidest...
According to one report, officials implied that they would refuse permission to use a university hall for the speech if the Union did not cancel its invitation...
...their telegram to the governor, officials of the Political Union said they had decided to cancel theinvitation because "in has been made clear to us that your presence here would severely impair the relationship between Yale and the New Haven Negro community...