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Wladyslaw Gomulka can refuse to issue visas to the West German bishops-but if he does, Pope Paul VI, who in the 1920s filled a diplomatic post in Warsaw and who would greatly like to attend the ceremonies at Czestochowa himself, can hardly overlook the insult to his church. The Vatican last week could only wait, and hope that Gomulka would simmer down...
Died. Tony De Marco, 67, U.S. ballroom dancer in the 1920s, '30s, and '40s, leader of the "Dancing De Marcos," who whirled his magnificently gowned partners around vaudeville and supper-club stages of the U.S. and Europe, thrilling audiences with his gliding grace and superbly timed leaps, in 1957 retired to Florida with Sally De Marco, his third wife and tenth partner; following a stroke; in West Palm Beach...
Died. Sigmund Spaeth, 80, prolific author of music-appreciation texts (Music for Fun), remembered by radio and vaudeville audiences of the 1920s and 1930s as the razzle-dazzle "Tune Detective" who blithely traced the ancestry of I'm Always Chasing Rainbows to Chopin's Fantaisie Impromptu and Yes, We Have No Bananas to Handel's Hallelujah Chorus; of an intestinal hemorrhage; in Manhattan...
Died. Hans Knappertsbusch, 77, German conductor in the grand tradition of the late 19th century romantics, who through the 1920s and '30s took brilliant charge of, first, the Munich Bavarian State Opera, then the Vienna State Opera and Vienna Philharmonic until the Nazis forced him into virtual retirement from 1938 to '45, after which he came back to crown his career at the 1951 Bayreuth Festival with a daringly modernized performance of Parsifal that sparked a Wagnerian revival throughout Europe; of a heart attack; in Munich...
...financed the nation's first major anti-poverty campaign and job retraining programs. Federal Area Redevelopment Act funds were even used to help private entrepreneurs build a brand-new 25-story Pontchartrain Hotel and one of three other high-rise hotels (the city's first since the 1920s) now under construction...