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Aeschylus, Athens & Ice Cream. In Montevideo, Minn., Lady Bird visited an old-folks home and an urban-renewal project. In nearby Waverly, Mrs. Hubert Humphrey showed her a bookmobile and artmobile and fed her homemade ice cream on the lawn. In Minneapolis-which hardly qualifies as a village-she suffered nobly through Tyrone Guthrie's The House of Atreus, a 31-hour version of Aeschylus' Oresteia trilogy. In Columbus, Ind., "the Athens of the Prairie," she listened to the American National Opera Company and praised the striking smalltown, big-name architecture (including work by such distinguished designers...
Flypaper Memory. Director of the U.S. Bureau of the Census from 1961 to 1965, Scammon, 52, comes to his role steeped in statistics and unafraid of conclusions. Vice President Hubert Humphrey, a longtime Minnesota friend, calls Scammon "one of the smartest men in town," adds: "He isn't just a statistician-he's a profound and deep student." British Political Scientist Harold Laski, under whom Scammon studied for a year at the London School of Economics, pronounced him "the ablest American student I ever had." CBS's Washington Commentator Eric Sevareid, a University of Minnesota classmate, ascribes...
...find the pilots to fly them. All last week Lagos was alive with rumors that foreign mercenaries were on the way-Egyptians, Algerians, Swedes, Finns-the nationalities seemed endless. But the only flyer who actually showed up was the 69-year-old "Black Eagle of Harlem," Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, who hinted that he could supply a squad of Negro-American pilots...
...casualty of Ongania's morality crusade, however, has been Alberto Ginastera's Bomarzo, the first important opera ever composed by an Argentine. For a while, Bomarzo was the pride of the government. For its world premiere three months ago, it was exported to Washington, where First-Nighter Hubert H. Humphrey found it "difficult, discordant and different"-although in good-neighborly fashion, he added, "It has distinction." Then, just before the opera's scheduled opening in Buenos Aires this month, Ongania changed his mind and decided that it was "too obsessed with sex." He banned it forthwith...
Married. George Henry Hubert Las-celles, 44, Earl of Harewood and 18th in line to the British throne; and Patricia Tuckwell Shmith, 38; in New Canaan, Conn, (see MODERN LIVING...