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...which it is written. The Russians and the Americans present ultimatums: accept massive aid, or else. But dollars and rubles would wreck the Concordian economy, which has operated smoothly for hundreds of years because the money it circulates is worthless. The Concordian leader counters by promoting a romance between Igor Romanoff (John Gavin), son of the Russian ambassador, and Juliet Mouls-worth (Sandra Dee), daughter of the American ambassador...
After a concert at U.C.L.A.'s first International Music Festival, frail, limping Igor Stravinsky, 78, was greeted by the Soviet delegation. Although one of the visitors had been a Stalinist cultural commissar when Stravinsky was blasted as a "decadent bourgeois," the meeting became a chattering, congenial gabfest, and the famed composer was invited to make his first visit to his native land since he left in 1914. Stravinsky tentatively accepted, but as his wife explained, "He is worried that he will become too emo tional when he returns to Russia...
Stravinsky Conducts-1960(Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky conducting; Columbia, 3 LPs). This labor of love and profit offers Stravinsky's own readings of Le Sacre du Printemps and Petroushka, plus his recorded commentary on the composition of Le Sacre ("The idea of Le Sacre du Printemps came to me while I was still composing ze Firebird"). The performances have his expectable tautness and clarity. The accompanying text and pictures make the album a fitting tribute to one of modern music's living monuments...
SPRING CONCERT: The Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society (conductor: Elliot Forbes '40) will join forces Sanders Theater in concert of music by Schutx, Tallis, Haydx and Schumann, in addition to excerpts from Igor Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex and three contemporary madrigals. 8:30 P.M. Special student tickets $1.00, $1.50, $2.00 at the Coop or at Holden Chapel...
...Aircraft Co., began peddling his own Hobbycopter kits and blueprints. Last year Adams sold nearly 100 kits at $2,800 apiece, mailed out more than 1,000 blueprints at $35 each. Helicopter clubs have sprouted up in Detroit and Flint, Mich., Rockford, Ill., Minneapolis and St. Paul. Explains Designer Igor Bensen: "Helicopters attract the young in spirit. Some are people who have reached the saturation point playing with cars and want more of a challenge. Some are frustrated pilots. There are more than 300,000 pilots in the U.S. but only 70,000 planes...