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...other major activity was the seminar program on trade and political interests, held in every building offering multi-lingual translation facilities. Since the Communists had for the first time come from behind the Iron Curtain to stage a Festival, it is surprising that they would spoil the effect so badly by repressive techniques in these meetings. Some, such as the seminar on underveloped countries, traced a pre-planned picture with heavy-handed accuracy wavering only when the shouting down of contrary viewpoints neared violence...
World Youth Festival: An allegedly representative meeting held every two years since 1947, this summer for the first time outside the Soviet controlled countries. Financed by the U.S.S.R., it was managed by Communist front organizations--the World Federation of Democratic Youth, and the International Union of Students. Some 20,000 "youth," officially including many over 30 years old, attended from over 100 nations...
...ready for its biggest deal: the take-over of London's powerful real-estate firm, Lintang Investments, which owns the biggest block of apartments (1,200) in Britain. Jasper bought 51% of Lintang's stock from the company, offered to buy all other outstanding, publicly held shares in a $20 million deal. While Lintang was pending, Jasper also offered to buy up the stock, worth about $4,000,000, in Cardiff's Ely Brewery (259 pubs...
Died. Vincent Richards, 56, tennis boy wonder who perfected a rifle-shot volley, at 15 teamed up with Bill Tilden to win the national doubles championship, won the Olympic singles the only year (1924) competition was held, at 23 startled fans by turning pro and triggering the professional-tennis movement in the U.S.; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...young couple-married after the suicide of the poet's first wife-skittered across France, Switzerland and Italy, keeping company with the brightest minds and most advanced spirits of English letters. When the poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley, died in a storm at sea at 29, his friends held a cremation ceremony on the beach, and one of them snatched the young heart from the flames. His widow, Mary, then 25, devoted her remaining years to the poet's memory...