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...forms might go too far and produce another Hungary, Dubcek traveled to Dresden in East Germany to confer with Communist leaders. The meeting was attended by East German Boss Walter Ulbricht, who is openly concerned by his neighbor's new course, and by Poland's Wladyslaw Gomulka. Hungarian Communist officials also showed up. Finally, as an indication of the meet ing's importance, both Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin and Party Boss Leo nid Brezhnev arrived in Dresden. The confrontation came only days after a Czechoslovak delegation returned home from Moscow with a Kremlin prom ise that...
Condon's hero is Tynan Bryson, a Welsh movie star-an obvious fiction, since there is no such thing as a Welsh movie star. Tyson has had only one failure in his 46 pictures (a Hungarian director persuaded him to portray Thomas Jefferson as Richard Nixon might have played him). And he has finally achieved his and every other actor's dream: his contract calls for him to receive exactly 100% of the total gross of his next production...
RECORDINGS Elvira, Meet Wolfgang It is impossible to predict where a composer's next record hit will come from, even if the composer is Mozart. A case in point is Deutsche Grammophon's 1965 release of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21, played by Hungarian-born Pianist Geza Anda. In three years it had sold a mere 2,000 copies in the U.S. Then a passage from the recording turned up as a recurrent, haunting theme on the sound track of the Swedish film Elvira Madigan, which opened in New York City last October. Deutsche Grammophon slapped...
...months ago. About to begin commercial-airline pilot training, he was ordered back to duty with Squadron VA831. "I'm not upset," said Dodge. "I'm very anxious to see justice done." Another who felt the same way was Marko Jukica, a naval gunner in the Austro-Hungarian fleet during World War I. On mobilization day, Jukica offered his services to the Navy, was politely turned down when he admitted that he was 79 years...
...right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities. But to make your way in a conducting career, you not only have to have opportunities; you have to make them a success." Mehta began pushing and making successes-while still a student. After the Hungarian revolution in 1956, he organized a student orchestra in seven days and conducted it in a concert at a refugee camp outside Vienna. In 1958, he boldly programmed an all-Schoenberg concert, did so well that he parlayed it into further bookings...