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...said while discussing the mystery of box-office appeal, "nothing will stop them." Hurok also authored two autobiographies (Impresario, S. Hurok Presents) about a life that began, like those of so many of his artists, in Russia. When he was 16, his father, a hardware merchant in the small Ukrainian village of Pogar, gave him 1,500 rubles and sent him to Kharkov to learn the hardware business. Instead, Sol headed straight for America, arriving with the equivalent of $1.50 in his pocket...
Once inside the hall, a world of international sights and sounds unfolds. 26 nationality and ethnic groups will perform on a giant stage throughout the five days. Included are Armenian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Slavic, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian folk dance troupes from Boston, Cambridge and surrounding communities...
...range of interests in other cultural booths includes glass blowing, candlemaking, Chinese traditional painting, silk screening, crafting of handmade sterling silver jewelry and making of Dutch eggshell ornaments. Booths which will offer the added excitement of providing audience participation include Ukrainian egg decorating where children and adults can decorate hard boiled eggs under the direction of a skilled craftsman, chess tournaments, Japanese origami and Polish paper cutting...
...range of foods from many lands to be sampled includes Indonensian "satay" (beef tidbits on bamboo skewers), Polish "golabki" (stuffed cabbage), German potato salad and American barbecued ribs. Others include Armenian, Bengali, Chinese, Egyptian, French, Greek, Hawaiian, Indian, Irish, Italian, Portuguese, Scottish, Turkish and Ukrainian dishes. For those with a sweet tooth there will be many pastries and an international candy booth...
Died. Dr. Selman Abraham Waksman, 85, a pioneer in microbiology who coined the term "antibiotic" in 1941 and two years later isolated streptomycin, the first antibiotic treatment for tuberculosis; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Hyannis, Mass. The Ukrainian-born scientist, who came to America in 1910, headed the Rutgers team that spent four years sifting through 100,000 different microbes to find streptomycin; in 1952 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for his achievements in medicine...