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Notably absent was the former First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who had talked Bernstein into composing the opening Mass. With typical Jacquelinian unpredictability, she first promised to appear, then reneged. She was reported sunning on her private Greek isle. But up until curtain time, rumors still flew that she might show up after all. Pestered beyond endurance by reporters, Roger L. Stevens, board chairman of the Center, finally declared, "She's not coming. If she were, every photographer would have followed her every step...
...speech. "They are representatives of the North American people, not their government. No one should compare their trip here with Yankee imperialism." Meanwhile the U.S. volleyball team, in Cuba for a series of warmup games for the 1972 Olympics, was getting a glimpse of life behind the Sugar Cane Curtain. One bit of information gleaned from the Cubans by Team Physician Dr. Robert Pike was the reason Castro's speeches are so long. "They told me that Castro realizes he is trying to reach people, many of whom cannot read or write," Pike said. "The only...
...pointless to worry about whether Suez is a shapely and coherent play. It isn't. Useless characters clutter the stage, scenes balloon or shrink out of proportion, and at the final curtain the plot snaps shut arbitrarily as native soldiers run onstage shooting. Osborne's anger still glints and cuts, but it cannot draw blood from such straw men as critics, in-laws and American tourists...
...meets and dazzles a younger man (Egon Madsen) at a cocktail party. Then, in a swirling dream sequence, she recalls the four great loves of her past. Realizing that amour is now beyond her, she sends the youth away and stands alone onstage with her memories as the curtain falls...
...country will be totally denied to the GVN, (d) neutral and/or left-wing elements will enter the government, (e) a popular front regime will emerge which will invite the U.S. out, and (f) fundamental concessions to the VC and accommodations to [Hanoi] will put South Viet Nam behind the Curtain." Generally, officials put a carefully cheerful face on matters and berated the U.S. press for its position while privately agreeing...