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...Wooed by official Russia and by musicians, he was also pursued by adoring teenagers. Total strangers, men and women, hugged and kissed him in the street, flooded him with gifts, fan mail, flowers (one bouquet came from Mrs. Nikita Khrushchev). Women cried openly at his concerts; in Leningrad, where fans queued up for three days and nights to buy tickets, one fell out of her seat in a faint. When Moscow TV scheduled only the first half of Van's prizewinning performance, the advance protest from Muscovites was so furious that the station scheduled the whole recital, plus encores...
...traveled to Klin to play Tchaikovsky's piano, played by the greatest pianists on Tchaikovsky's birthday only. For Van they moved the birthday up several weeks. Finally, he played a solo recital at the conservatory auditorium to thunderous cheers, boarded the Red Arrow train to Leningrad, on the first leg of a tour to Riga, Kiev and Minsk...
...know why they got their Sputniks up first. I'm surprised the whole country didn't go straight up years ago." On the censorship: "The Soviet censor read all my jokes. I haven't seen him since. I understand he is doing my act in Leningrad...
...Four delegations each of college professors to study the other's educational system; up to 20 students from Moscow and Leningrad universities to attend U.S. universities for a year, and vice versa...
...academic world, Langer commented, adding that financial support for the expenses of the scholars might be sought from the foundations. Langer, it is assumed, will continue to coordinate Harvard's activities related to the Russian scholars. Harvard's representatives will, under the agreement, go to the University of Leningrad on a reciprocal basis...