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Before the holocaust of Detroit, Michigan's Governor George Romney had worked out a timetable of international travels designed, like Richard Nixon's global peripatetics, to make him a Republican presidential candidate equipped by firsthand knowledge to deal with foreign policy. This month he was to tour Europe's capitals; he planned to visit South Viet Nam in November for his second personal look...
Charles de Gaulle's inflammatory cries of "Long live free Quebec!" during his foreshortened Canadian tour in July drew unanimous boos on both sides of the Atlantic. So naturally, the General ordered a "considerable increase" in French aid to Quebec. It would not take much to make any increase considerable, since the most visible signs of French aid so far have been an exchange of some 60 schoolteachers and a technical assist in building Montreal's rubber-tired subway. What France desires, said De Gaulle, is "to help the French of Canada to maintain and develop their personality...
Last week the boyish, 35-year-old nontraditionalist turned up in Wilton, Conn., for some piano practice and stocktaking. He was homeward bound for a concert tour after 17 years in London, where he has produced a widely performed repertory of orchestral, ballet and chamber music, plus several operas that have been making the rounds of English and Continental houses. As for stocktaking, he could count in a substantial success two weeks ago at Newport, R.I., where...
Married. Dionne Warwick, 26, top star of soul music; and William David Elliott, 33, musician and sometime actor whom she divorced last May after nearly a year of marriage; following a reconciliation during her current European tour; in Milan, Italy...
Adding to the ferment, two pieces sharply disagree. Stanley Kauffmann explains how he got jobbed by the New York Times for trying to do "serious drama criticism" during his brief tour there last year. By contrast, Benjamin DeMott attacks Kauffmann's most discussed criticism: the two articles he did for the Sunday Times accusing homosexual playwrights of always trying to"invent a two-sex version of the one-sex experience." As DeMott sees it, the homosexuals contribute a valid theatrical experience -"a steady consciousness of a dark side of love...