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...mahogany-paneled study of his home in suburban San Angel, Mexico's Red-tinged labor leader, Vicente Lombardo Toledano, has amassed a library of 2,500 books. It includes many prized volumes of Mexican history, gilt-titled editions of Marx, Engels, Hegel, Kant, Darwin and Spencer. Two years ago, in order to help finance his left-wing Popular Party, Lombardo put up his library as collateral for a 6,000-peso ($696) loan from the government's cooperative bank...
...festival began, King Frederik and his handsome Swedish-born Queen nodded approval from the Royal Box in the gilt-splashed and chandeliered Kongelige Teater as Soloist Ralov and his blonde wife Kirsten danced a rousing performance of Napoli. By the time the festival closed this week, a silken-smooth performance of Concerto (based on Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto in A Minor) had moved the Danes to break an old Royal Ballet tradition. To a thunder of bravos, the full company lined up to take one of its rare curtain calls...
Schuman's colleagues stirred uneasily in their gilt and cherry chairs. In theory they were all for adding Western Germany to Western Europe's defense front. In practice, they were dead set against any real German participation, e.g., German membership in the North Atlantic Treaty. As politicians, almost all of them still believed that damning the boche was the cheapest way of getting votes in France. A week before, they had instructed Schuman to stall on the whole issue. But now Schuman said: "J'ai quelque chose ici" . .[I have something here...
Boston's plush-and-gilt Opera House was rocked to its venerable foundations Monday night as Les Ballets de Paris moved in with a frenzied melange of ballet, can-can, burlesque, and aerobatics. Out of the resulting excitement emerges some of the best entertainment this city has seen in a long time...
Meanwhile, in the main.hall of the palace, Indonesian workmen removed the heavy, gilt-framed portraits of the imperial Dutchmen whose hardheaded commercial dealings had founded the empire. (Their pictures would soon be replaced by Soekarno's favorite paintings of Indonesian national heroes.) The old pictures sat unceremoniously on the floor: bewigged Johannes Camphuys (1684-91), great governor and great gardener, whose followers introduced coffee-growing to Java; Herman Willem Daendels (1808-11), governor general and dictatorial reformer; Johannes van den Bosch (1830-33), governor general, paternalist exponent of a forced-labor system. The workmen loaded the pictures...