Word: summer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every other summer for twelve years the Communists have served up a monster propaganda rally for fellow travelers of the younger set from all over the world, and for any other ingenuous souls who could be enticed along. Until this year, the circuses were always staged behind the Iron Curtain, with plenty of Red police to keep things moving by the numbers, and press censorship to blank out any slipups. But last week, when the pink pipes of Pan sounded for the Seventh Youth Festival in neutral Vienna's vast Prater fairgrounds, there was trouble, trouble everywhere...
Only a week remained before Parlia-rrfent would adjourn for the summer, and according to the rules Her Majesty's loyal Opposition had the right to choose the issues to be debated. The decision was an easy one: nowhere was the government of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in deeper trouble than in its Africa policy...
Last week Lebanon's President Fuad Chehab, who does his best to ignore the feuds, headed for his summer home in the mountains, there to greet a group of visiting Lebanese-Americans (TIME, Aug. 3). Among his invited guests: bulky Nairn Moghabghab, 48, one of the heroes of Lebanon's long independence struggle against the French. It was Guerrilla Moghabghab who in 1944 shot a French soldier who was trying to replace the Lebanese flag with the Tricolor atop Beirut's parliament building. Moghabghab became a Deputy and later Minister of Works...
...Suzuki, Robert Merrill, George Jessel (its smaller nightclub keeps its budget down to $2,000 for individual acts). There are some 50 hotels in the Belt, and top entertainers-Georgia Gibbs, Sammy Davis Jr., Tony Martin, Red Buttons-make the rounds. Says Comedian Gene Baylos, who is spending the summer playing the Belt: "You're facing the toughest audience. They become connoisseurs, and they're very critical. Hell, they've seen everybody...
...Summer music festivals usually meander through the hot weather months peacefully masticating a cud of predigested opera and alfalfa-flavored chamber music. A notable and daring exception has been New York's Empire State Music Festival, which five years ago pledged itself to new or rarely performed works. In a sprawling tent at Ellenville, N.Y., the festival presented the Eastern premiere of Stravinsky's Canticum Sacrum, the premiere of a ballet by Villa-Lottos, Sibelius' music for The Tempest and Strauss's Elektra, Carl Orff's score for Midsummer Night's Dream...