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...frock coats and black hats stepped solemnly down King George Avenue to the pale gold building, crossed the pastel rose and green entrance hall and climbed the Galilee-marble staircase (or took the elevator) to the huge reception hall on the fifth floor. They mingled there with a crush of notables as international as Israel herself: robed prelates of the Greek Orthodox and Coptic Churches, Moslem and Druse dignitaries, and members of the diplomatic corps (who kept their hats on like their Israeli hosts). There were even some English ladies in picture hats-guests of Benefactor Wolf-son-bobbing like...
...Freshmen Crush Yale...
Manhattan's love affair with the Moiseyev-running concurrently with Moscow's crush on U.S. Pianist Van Cliburn (TIME April 21-28)-went on offstage too. Every time the dancers left their Times Square hotel (where they insisted on making their own beds), they were followed by curious throngs, snapped by photographers, interviewed by newsmen. The girls went on Fifth Avenue shopping sprees, passed opinions about the chemise ("all right for the not too fat"), Americans ("very friendly"), Manhattan ("too noisy"), the Broadway musical West Side Story ("too sexy"). When the dancers visited Harlem, they were amazed...
Within minutes of the opening, most of the 160,000 first-day visitors tried to descend on the U.S. and Russian pavilions. (In the crush, a Belgian guard at the U.S. pavilion was pushed through a plate-glass window, hospitalized.) Both pavilions got mixed notices. There was almost universal agreement that in architectural beauty Edward Stone's circular U.S. pavilion of steel and gold aluminum (TIME, March 31) surpassed Russia's rectangle of frosted glass and steel, though the Soviet building was an improvement on Russia's usual grim monoliths. Those who think that fairs should...
...Hungarian "counter-revolution": "You Hungarians were careless in not noticing the coming of the counterrevolution until it was on your doorstep. We Russians had to crush the counterrevolution, but, as a worker, I must say that you Hungarians should not stand around like fools with your mouths open. Don't be offended. You slept soundly with your fists clenched like children, and when the counterrevolution came, Russia had to help...