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...became unbearable to the maestro, and in 1971 he slipped out to Sweden on a carelessly stamped exit visa. He soon signed on as general music director of the Kiel Opera, then picked up guest engagements in Europe and America. Tennstedt made his U.S. debut in December 1974, conducting the Boston Symphony in Brahms and Bruckner. The complex, granitic Eighth Symphony of Bruckner was hardly an easy choice for a newcomer, but the performance made it clear that a conductor of the first rank had arrived. The Boston had not sounded so brilliant in years. Subsequent appearances - topped...
When the American fleet arrived at the end of the war, Blumenthal hired a sampan and sailed out to greet the ships. He received a U.S. visa in 1947 and settled in San Francisco. He recalls: "I had no commitments, no obligations, no money−nothing but opportunity." He made the most of it. To put himself through the University of California at Berkeley, he worked as a janitor, a movie ticket taker, a stagehand, a casino shill. After graduation, he enrolled in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton. Within five years, he earned three...
...Jiryis' visa was not renewed because his application falsely indicated that he had been born in the Sudan, whose passport he carries. The State Department added, however, that "from a foreign policy standpoint, we do not believe it a propitious moment for the P.L.O. to establish an office in Washington...
President Bok said in a speech on May 12, 1975 that Harvard would refuse any involvement in Saudi Arabia because of the country's visa restrictions on Jews...
...Explanation. In addition to the Sokolniki Park incident, the Kremlin last week virtually expelled the third-ranking U.S. embassy official, Marshall Brement, a career diplomat, fluent in Russian and Chinese. His Soviet visa was canceled a few days after he arrived in the U.S. on a home leave. Even more significantly, the Kremlin has failed to respond to the nomination of U.S. Ambassador to Israel Malcolm Toon as the next American envoy to the Soviet Union. The Soviets may be displeased with Toon, a blunt career diplomat, who is an expert on East European affairs and who served two prior...