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Despite the flare-up over Hungary, the meeting lasted 2½ hours and ended amicably, but Stevenson left looking grim. He was depressed to find inside the Kremlin exactly what he had found outside it during his four-week tour of the Soviet Union: "Misunderstanding and ignorance about the U.S. and the ideas it stands for." Stevenson's proposed remedy: "A much wider and freer exchange of ideas and information, as well as of tourists, artists and athletes...
Wiser in the world's ways than when he tramped through Lenin land as a boy reporter (for I.N.S.) in 1926, peripatetic Democrat Adlai Stevenson arrived in the Soviet north for a four-week tour. "I'm going to do as little talking as possible," said Adlai in Leningrad. "I have to learn as much as I can of the life and work of the Soviet people. It is important for the peace of the world that we understand each other." Besides rubbernecking in the tundra, Stevenson will hack away at a thorny issue: royalties for U.S. authors...
Excavated Shops. To set the scene for his four-week festival, Menotti refurbished the town with such gusto that the astounded inhabitants started calling him Il Matto (The Madman). He tore out neon street lighting and substituted antique carriage lanterns, got Cathedral Square temporarily deconsecrated so intermission-coffee tables could be placed outside the adjacent theater. At the same time, a group of townsmen dug out a row of medieval shops, now stocked with modern paintings and Italian bric-a-brac. Facelifting and the scheduled productions have cost roughly $250,000, and even with private and foundation support, Menotti...
Grinning widely, James Riddle Hoffa, 44, president-elect of the Teamsters Union, hopped out of a Manhattan federal courtroom one day last week, grabbed the telephone and called his wife in Detroit. The good news from Jimmy: a jury, after a four-week trial, failed to agree on whether Hoffa was guilty of conspiring to tap telephones illegally in his Detroit headquarters between...
...even family gatherings. He has made 81 trips abroad, including five to the U.S. ("Free enterprise has given the American citizen," says Erhard, "a living standard and a chance for self-expression unparalleled in the rest of the world.") His energy is prodigious, his persistence monumental. On one four-week swing through Latin America ("the continent of the future"), Erhard outlasted two aides, who split the 18-hour daily duty of keeping up with him, outate, outdrank and outtalked his hosts in eight countries, and sparked a tremendous interest in doing business with Germany. Nothing defeats him. Says an associate...