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...Andrei Gromyko, turned up in the office of the Assembly President, Brazil's suave Oswaldo Aranha, and announced that Czechoslovakia did not choose to run. Gromyko said that the Ukraine would be a candidate instead. Latin American delegates then agreed to support the Ukraine's Dmitri Manuilsky. This did not indicate any love of Russia south of the border (see LATIN AMERICA). The Latins assumed that the U.S. was willing to see the Security Council go on voting 9 to 2. In any case, the stumbling block was Russia's veto, which it could exercise without...
...misanthropic robot. He is blunt, aloof, without imagination, without the right (or apparently the will) to independent thought. He refers every decision to Moscow. His diplomacy consists in executing Moscow's will to the letter, to the accompaniment of paraphrased Pravda editorials. He is assisted by Physics Professor Dmitri Vladimirovich Skobeltsin (Atomic Energy), Economist Alexander P. Morozov (ECOSOC) and Lieut. General Alexander P. Vasiliev (Military Staff Committee). Gromyko works as hard as any man on his team. "Oh," says Mme. Gromyko with a nice sense for the hierarchy of toil, "Andrei does work hard, yet not as hard...
TIME'S piece on Dmitri Shostakovich [TIME, June 9] dogmatically names him "one of the five greatest living composers (the others: Sergei Prokofiev, Richard Strauss, Igor Stravinsky, Jean Sibelius...
...spite of his efforts to stay out of the limelight, shy Dmitri Shostakovich stole the show. One of the festival's big events was his Eighth Symphony, conducted by friend Eugene Mravinsky (to whom the Eighth is dedicated), conductor of the Leningrad Philharmonic. When the Czech radio recently played the Eighth, the score was altered because it was considered too difficult to play; this time Mravinsky brought along his own score...
...inspiration for the people; the mission of the Soviet composer must be to educate the good taste of the people." Both the Shostakovich children, daughter Galya, 11, and son Maxim, 9, are taking piano lessons. His short, plump, blonde wife Nina, who helps answer questions for her husband, said: "Dmitri doesn't think either of them has shown any particular talent, but Maxim's teacher says he is already showing signs of becoming a great pianist." Snapped Dmitri, who was already composing at that age: "All piano teachers say that...