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...Aldeburgh (June11-26). In a bleak antique setting, this remains the most determinedly regional of European festivals. Founded by Benjamin Britten, it has been the site of numerous Britten premieres, will this summer offer his new full-length opera, Midsummer Night's Dream...
...sense, the U.S. had helped touch off the Communist time of troubles by publishing the Khrushchev speech that confessed the violent crimes of the Stalin era (TIME. June11). Secretary of State John Foster Dulles had since reiterated that although Khrushchev damned despotism, the speech clearly revealed Khrushchev as a despot too−and this line has been echoed by bemused Communists throughout the West. "International Communism is in a state of perplexity and at internal odds," said Dulles at his press conference last week, "because certain basic truths have caught up with it . . . This is, above all, a time...
Among other music festivals in Europe this summer: One of the newest is Rouen's"Great Hours" (May 30-June11), centering on a famous short-time resident, Joan of Arc, and featuring Honegger's opera-oratorio, Jeanne d'Arc au Bucher (TIME, Jan. 12, 1948). Oldest festival of all is England's Three Choirs Festival, this year of Worcester (Sept. 5-10); it began about 1715 and has been going (with time out for wars) ever since. Using some 300 singers from Worcester, Gloucester and Hereford, the program is designed to satisfy British love of massed...
Italy last week went into Round Two of its electoral contest (TIME, June11). The scene: poverty-stricken Sicily, which was electing a 90-member legislative assembly. There Reds scored even bigger gains in popular vote than in the municipal elections in Northern Italy two weeks before. The Communists, who rolled up a vote of 464,000 in 1948, gained 180,000. The Demo-Christians lost nearly 400,000. Because of Italy's new electoral law, which provides that any party with a plurality in a district automatically gets two-thirds of the seats for that district, the Demo-Christians...
...Tony Bettenhausen, driving the 330-h.p. Belanger Special that won the Memorial Day race at the Indianapolis Speedway (TIME, June11), the 100-mile A.A.A. national championship auto race; in Milwaukee...