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...profits. Menotti began to worry that they were missing the cultural meaning of it all, so he held a meeting and urged them to "make the whole city a festival." The fiesta-fond Italians took him at his word, celebrating Menotti's 60th birthday with brass bands, torchlight processions and 2,000 signed testimonials of affection. Awakened by a rendition of his own Triple Concerto, the composer sniffled: "Before this I felt like an ornament. Now I feel like a household utensil, and it's wonderful...
That stirred a controversy, but it was nothing compared with the uproar that followed his February 1968 march through Stockholm's streets shoulder to shoulder with the North Vietnamese ambassador to Moscow, during a torchlight parade protesting U.S. involvement in the Viet Nam war. In a speech to the protesters, Palme claimed that democracy in Viet Nam was "represented in a considerably higher degree by the National Liberation Front than by the U.S. and its allied juntas." Swedes in general oppose the war, but the manner of Palme's gesture blew up a storm. Conservative Swedes were furious...
...torchlight parade, complete with bands and limousines, will greet the opening of Cambridge's newest movie theatre, the Orson Welles Cinema, at 7 p.m. tonight. The Cambridge City Council has joined in the celebration by declaring today "Orson Welles Day," in honor of the noted American Filmmaker...
...second Myth imparts a little less rosy glow to the South. This is the myth of the Redneck South, the South of Klan rallies, midnight lynchings, and torchlight processions. This dream has George Wallace as its star, not Thomas Jefferson. The supporting cast is made up of illiterate brutes and lumbering semi-humans who blindly destroy any thinking creature...
...Issue. Wickman, 44, is one of two leading candidates to succeed wily Prime Minister Tage Erlander, 67, if he makes good his promise to retire next year. The other is brash Education Minister Olof Palme, 41, who stirred up a storm last winter when he marched in a torchlight parade with North Viet Nam's Ambassador to Moscow to protest the U.S. bombing. Like Palme, most Swedes oppose Washington's Viet Nam policy. Sweden's own foreign policy, however, was never an issue in the campaign. After all, Sweden's traditional neutrality has kept...