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...last winter, Violinist Isaac Stern got a call from his manager. How would he like to make a quick trip to Reykjavik to play for Icelanders? Stern had just returned from a long tour, and did not like the idea at all, but he listened to the reasons. Then he picked up his Guarnerius and boarded a military plane for a flight to the big island just below the Arctic Circle...
...Reykjavik Isaac Stern wowed his audience-he had to repeat his recital in the 800-seat theater - but his success was a mere icicle on an iceberg, compared with the Russian effort. Every year the Soviet Union dispatches culture delegations containing four to ten fine artists, e.g., soloists from the Leningrad ballet, violinists, singers, pianists, even chess players, and once sent Composer Aram (Sabre Dance) Khachaturian to conduct Iceland's national symphony. What makes Russian visits even more effective is the Russian practice of traveling to outlying communities to make music with local musicians...
...fight over Montgomery Ward was turning into a free-for-all. Last week, while Challengers Louis Wolfson and Fred Saigh, former owner of the St. Louis Cardinals, jabbed away, Board Chairman Sewell Avery got a possible new ally. The candidate: Britain's Isaac Wolfson (no kin to Florida's Louis), chairman of Great Universal Stores, Ltd., a giant mail-order firm with 1,000 retail outlets in Britain and Canada...
Britain's Wolfson, according to a Ward official, had "approached" Avery. The rumor around Ward's was that Isaac Wolfson offered to buy a big chunk of Ward's stock if he could have a voice in management and use Ward's stores to sell the products of his furniture and clothing factories. Avery would stay on as chairman...
...Give Me Death. In Oklahoma City, Isaac West was convicted of drunk driving, despite his insistence that he had a constitutional right to drive on either the left or right side of the road...