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...success of their mission to Britain. But it was soon obvious that their most unforgettable moment was the roughing they got at the ill-starred Labor Party dinner (TIME, May 7). Said Premier Nikolai Bulganin: "However strange it may be, the only organization which tried by its conduct to spoil the atmosphere of our visit was the organization of the Laborites. They were given a well-deserved rebuke...
...Among Pigeons. Back in Britain, Labor Leader Hugh Gaitskell replied: "It was certainly not our desire to spoil the visit in any way, [but] we are bound to differ on the issue of imprisoned Social Democrats, which we regard as an issue of principle." George Brown, the right-wing trade unionist who is contesting with Nye Bevan for the party treasuryship, had been the most persistent of Khrushchev's hecklers at the dinner. He had been swamped with mail since "I scattered the cat among the pigeons," he said, and proudly added: "Mr. Khrushchev told...
...reading and correct technique-under the director of a Dutch conservatory of music, Pia could learn nothing. After three lessons the director told Pia. "What you do with your hands and arms is all wrong, but you're a natural. Go away! I don't want to spoil...
...French Antarctic expedition, and Disney's cartoon version of Peter and the Wolf. The life of the penguin is not so gripping as that of the lion, but the brief presentation is charming. The cartooning in the latter picture is good, but wonkie adaptation and commentary will spoil it for most who remember Prokofieff's creation with any affection...
...SUNKEN GARDEN, by Douglass Wallop (254 pp.; Norton; $3.50), spins this sudsy question in the novelistic washer: Will the seven-year itch spoil the successful marriage of Tom Forester, boy adman? Author Wallop is noted for his 1954 crystal-gazing novel, The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant (later the hit musical Damn Yankees), in which he showed how the Devil, with an assist from a Washington Senator outfielder, could raise hob in a baseball stadium; now he shows how the devil in the flesh complicates family life in the Madison Avenue...