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Anything Handy. Offstage, Ghiaurov behaves like a kind of Bulgarian Jackie Gleason, mugging, joking, erupting into great rumbling gales of ho-ho-ho laugh ter. At parties, given a few drinks, he will invariably perform on any instrument that is handy - flute, clarinet, trombone, piano, harmonica, violin, all of which he learned to play as a child in Bulgaria. Son of a farm hand, he was raised in Velingrad, a mineral-bath resort high in the Rhodope Mountains. As a teenager, Ghiaurov had no interest in singing, gained fame in local circles as an actor and star athlete with...
...Edgard Varese, 81, Paris-born avant-garde composer, whose ear-shattering attempts (with sirens, sleigh bells, clanking chains) to extend the boundaries of music beyond conventional instruments went unnoticed until the mid-1950s, when the noisy young composers of electronic music "rediscovered" him and hailed him as their mas ter; of complications following surgery; in Manhattan...
Samborski did allow the band to perform one routine from the original program. The band formed an Oedipal mask. The announcer added: "After reading Freud, the band has realized that the annual return of alumni to their alms ma- ter is symptomatic of a complex usually associated with a Greek tragic hero." Concluding the show, the band formed a comic mask and played "I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl Who Married Dear...
Died. Hayato Ikeda, 65, Prime Minister of Japan from 1960 to 1964, a talented economist who as Vice-Minis ter and later Minister of Finance and International Trade guided Japan's postwar economic recovery almost continuously since 1947, pursuing his ex pansionist program as Prime Minister with a promise to double per capita income within ten years, until in 1961 Japan had the world's highest growth rate (18.9%) but also a record $1.5 billion trade deficit and the beginnings of a recession; of pneumonia, following surgery for throat cancer; in Tokyo...
...seats in Parliament, and despite an array of eight opposition parties ranging from the Communists to the free-enterprise Swatantra (Freedom) Party, stands in no danger of losing control. The Congress itself embraces a broad spectrum of political coloration, from the virtual Communism of former Defense Minis ter Krishna Menon through the proAmericanism of Railways Minister S. K. Patil to the Hindu mysticism of the party's reactionary wing. But basically it retains much of the socialist stamp given it by Nehru. A small circle of Congress politicians known as "the Syndicate" currently dominates the party...