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Plans called for a Midsummer Music Festival, but New Yorkers have seldom been offered music of such sustained seriousness even in the dead of winter. The programs ranged from La Clemenza di Tito (The Mercy of Titus), a rarely performed opera composed in the last year of Mozart's life, to concerti grossi by Handel, Vivaldi and Samuel Barber, to Bach's B Minor Mass and Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms. Skep tics said tickets would go begging. In stead, knowledgeable audiences have kept Philharmonic Hall practically full. The programs' appeal, says Festival Administrator Jay Hoffman...
Meanwhile, the Russians did not seem eager to help their Chinese brothers with their growing internal economic difficulties. While Khrushchev wooed neutralist India and Egypt with aid, and even brought his moneybags on a pilgrimage to that renegade Red, Tito, not an additional ruble was allotted...
...never fun to break up a vacation and rush home to deal with some problem at the office. For Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, it was especially provoking, for he was enjoying some of the world's loveliest scenery at Marshal Tito's villa on the Yugoslav island of Brioni. But the cables from Cairo carried word that Nasser's Arab unity scheme was in a state of collapse. Reluctantly, Egypt's leader boarded a plane and headed across the Mediterranean to deal with his troublemaking partners, the Syrians...
...Yugoslav relations were never really warm; since the U.S. Congress last summer served notice that it would eliminate Belgrade's "most favored nation" trading clause this year, they have been positively chilly. Marshal Tito's ostentatiously friendly trip to Moscow last year did not improve matters, either. But Belgrade was anxious to assure the U.S. that it was officially still "unaligned," and to smooth things over, Rusk agreed at the last minute to make his visit...
After lunch with Popovic and a reception at the U.S. embassy given by retiring U.S. Ambassador George Kennan, Rusk paid a call on Tito in his Belgrade villa. Yugoslavia has some 1956 vintage U.S. military equipment for which Tito would like spare parts since 50% of Yugoslavia's commerce is with the West, it is worried about the rising tariff walls of the six-nation Common Market. Naturally, Tito raised the problem of "most favored nation" status which, if eliminated, could sharply boost import levies on Yugoslavia's $30 million annual trade with the U.S. Rusk could offer...