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SANTA FE OPERA, N. Mex., was completely destroyed by fire last July. Rebuilt at a cost of $1,750,000, it is scheduled to reopen July 2 with Puccini's Madame Butterfly, followed by six other new productions, among them the U.S. premières of Hans Werner Henze's The Bassarids (Aug. 7 and 9), conducted by the composer, and Arnold Schoenberg's Die Jakobsleiter...
Dreary Standstill. Despite Mao's order to reopen the schools last year, many are still closed; those that are open teach little more than Maoist slogans. China's cultural life has been brought to a dreary standstill by the Cultural Revolution; not a single book of any major value has been published for two years, and the only new play that showed promise, The Madman of the New Age, was condemned by the critics as an oblique attack...
...cocktails and set fire to many autos, the explosion of their gasoline tanks mixed with the pop of police tear-gas grenades. In a belated weekend effort to restore calm, Premier Georges Pompidou proclaimed on radio and television that reform of the university system was "indispensable," and promised to reopen the Sorbonne this week. He even hinted that appeal courts would deal lightly with already convicted student leaders...
...Hurry. The U.S. has kept meticulously silent over events in Czechoslovakia for fear of further embarrassing Dubček before his Communist neighbors. Last week, though, the State Department said that it was watching the liberalization with "interest and sympathy," even expressed willingness to reopen talks about $20 million worth of Czechoslovak gold confiscated from the Nazis toward the end of World War II. The U.S. has refused to return the bullion without some compensation for $72 million in American properties that the Communists nationalized in 1948. At week's end, the Dubček regime rebuffed the offer...
...With permission from Glidrose Productions, owners of Fleming's copyrights, who are obviously hoping to reopen the Bond gold mine, Amis is writing as "Robert Markham," although the reason is obscure. His real name is given right under the pen name, making one long for the good old days when pseudonyms were really pseudo...