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...picked up a Medal of Freedom in Washington from President Kennedy and rushed into the fray. His broad face loomed from Socialist posters all over Belgium, and party workers declared that as a moderate, and a notable orator, he was just the man to counteract the alarm produced in staid Belgian voters by rabble-rousing André Renard, whose strikers had kept the nation paralyzed for five weeks and cost the economy an estimated $150 million...
...long series of rehabilitations. As styles change, men and periods slip into comparative obscurity, and a later age whisks them back into favor. So it has been to a large degree with the art of France in the 17th century-a century that for a long time seemed too staid and static for modern tastes. Since World War II, museums on both sides of the Atlantic have been fighting for the few surviving works of the 17th century master Georges de La Tour. Last summer, the Louvre put on the biggest exhibit of Nicolas Poussin ever held...
Peter and the Wolf (Beatrice Lillie; London Symphony Orchestra; London). The ineffable Bea seems to take Prokofiev's fable with what Max Beerbohm called "a stalactite of salt." Her impish spoofery is just what this staid and somewhat self-conscious classic now needs...
...shelf of tweedy pipe-smokers for whom Wall Street was a subway stop and profits a slight source of bemusement, today fairly bustles with talk of mergers, stock splits and diversification. The reason: the boom in textbooks for the burgeoning U.S. school population, which is lifting many a once staid, privately owned publishing house into the heady world of big business. Last week two large, old-line publishers announced mergers aimed at increasing their share of the new textbook market...
...speech as "conciliatory" suggested that Khrushchev was eager to begin negotiating again. That night, instead of closeting himself with his advisers, Khrushchev resumed his favorite role of informal comic and propagandist. Flanked by his ever-present army of security guards, he rolled up to the staid Plaza Hotel to attend a Togolese reception. As he stepped from his limousine, hundreds of New Yorkers greeted him with the wildest chorus of boos and catcalls that he had got all week. Smiling, he waved at them and darted into the lobby, where again a mob of onlookers, including a heavy sprinkling...