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...performances brimming with passion. But this newly recorded Callas has a nearly unbeatable rival-the Callas of twelve years ago. Since then her voice and even, occasionally, her characterization have hardened, and though the drama may at times be heightened, cerebral firepower is no substitute for vocal beauty. Baritone Tito Gobbi is again a superb Scarpia...
...agree. Franco "may never be considered respectable enough in the Western community" [April 23]-of Tito, Brandt, Nenni, Spaak, Attlee, Mendes-France...
...North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh might turn into the Tito of Asian Communism. This is possible, but only if Red China changes its nationalist-expansionist direction. Tito's Yugoslavia is separated by 200 miles of Carpathian wilderness from Russia, while North Viet Nam has a common frontier with China. Moreover, the Chinese have traditionally pushed south. Ho, whose basic training and sympathies derive from the Soviet Union, is now 75; most of his rising lieutenants are pro-Peking. A Viet Nam united under Communist rule would, for the foreseeable future, remain a Peking satellite...
...happy. Yugoslavia's economy has been in almost constant chaos, punctuated by frequent crises of inflation, deflation and devaluation. Now it is in another economic bind. Unemployment is rising; the country is hard-pressed to meet a $1.3 billion foreign debt coming due this year, and Josip Broz Tito, the durable dictator, admitted recently that some factories are operating at only 40% to 50% of capacity. The source of these headaches is an ailment more frequently connected with capitalist than with Communist countries: inflation...
...Prices have also risen for everything from haircuts to shirts. Though wages have risen by one-third (to an average $53 monthly), many people have to moonlight to make ends meet. The latest tale wagging around Belgrade's coffeehouses has a teacher asking a pupil why Tito holds three jobs, as chief of army, state and party. Answer: nobody can live off one job in Yugoslavia...