Word: tbilisi
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...avoid noticing the statues and paintings of Stalin that still adorn many a Georgian town and hotel, but they have even restored Stalin to the history books. Last week Brezhnev went a long step further toward the rehabilitation of Georgia. He flew to the regional capital of Tbilisi to present the republic with an Order of Lenin...
...parades are hardly designed to celebrate the bonds of friendship between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. Yet in Tbilisi, Communist marchers repeatedly slowed their procession to applaud members of the Cleveland Orchestra, peering like conventioneers from the windows of the Hotel Tbilisi. As one Tbilisian put it, inviting the musicians to join him in a drink: "Viet Nam, nyet...
...Moscow and Kiev, after an evening of Brahms and Mozart, several of the musicians adjourned to the youth cafés to sit in on jam sessions with the local hipsters. In Tbilisi, the orchestra was treated to a sumptuous banquet and serenaded by Georgian folk singers. The only sour note of the tour was sounded privately by the musicians, who rightfully questioned Szell's generally lightweight selection of American works, including two insipidities by Composers William Grant Still and Herbert Elwell, a native of Cleveland...
...Fidel Castro had finally returned from his five-week visit to the Soviet Union. Still grinning, he went to an airport phone, waited as an aide dialed puppet President Osvaldo Dorticos, then stepped up and wrapped a handkerchief around the mouthpiece. "Dorticos!" he shouted. "This is Fidel speaking from Tbilisi." Then he gave up the game: "I am at the airport. I just arrived on the TU." With that, El Maximo Lider hailed a taxicab and rattled into town...
...planning for next year. Though the new budget still allots heavy industry the lion's share of funds, it will give a 50% boost to investment in consumer industries as compared with a 30% rise for heavy industry. To justify this concession to consumer wants, a delegate from Tbilisi declared that the housing situation in the Georgian capital is "tense" because of the government's slack construction schedule. A speaker from Sverdlovsk grumbled that apartment houses are being built without running water...