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...workers coming out of a nearby cigar store handed an SDS pamphleteer a pack of matches and told him, "There's a can of gasoline over by that truck...
...Feast. As the car plowed through a snowstorm along the turnpike, Rubinstein gaily sang along with the car radio in a voice that sounded like a gargling cello. He pulled out a great smokestack of a cigar, passed it beneath his nose, pierced one end, lit it, puffed three times, closed his eyes, leaned back and sighed, "Ahhh, good!" Basking in a lazy curl of smoke, he mused: "At every concert I leave a lot to the moment. I must have the unexpected, the unforeseen. I want to risk, to dare. I want to be surprised by what comes...
Everything is different, everything is an adventure to Rubinstein?the Boston concert, the limousine ride, the cigar, the subsequent performances in Toronto, Washington, Chicago. He plays on life as he plays on the piano-with style, with taste, with exuberance, and with a spontaneity that is all the more breathtaking because it is marvelously original. Last month, within a period of ten days, he reeled off eight major concertos by Beethoven, Mozart and Brahms in Carnegie Hall; few other instrumentalists in the world, regardless of age or standing, would have attempted such a grueling program?and none could have matched...
...cigars are the best. When he sensed the shift of politics in Cuba, he bought 3,000 of his favorite Upmann Montecristos at 75é apiece, and had them stored in the humidor in Manhattan's "21" Club, from which he draws, in miserly fashion, enough for two or three smokes a day. "It's not a vice," he explains. "If I couldn't get the right brands, I wouldn't smoke at all. You know, in films when a soldier is dying, the first thing they do is stuff a cigarette into his mouth, and he dies happily...
...Zionist movement finally saw daylight last week. CBS Board Chairman William Paley announced plans to convert the site of the defunct Stork Club (TIME, Oct. 15) into a lot-size (42 ft. by 100 ft.) public park as a memorial to his father, Cigar Czar Samuel Paley, who died in 1963. The $1,000,000 plaza, which is to be completed this summer, will be New York's first midtown "waistcoat" park, and the first privately endowed public park in the city. Designed by Zion, it will feature a canopy of 24 intertwined locust trees, individual chairs...