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...Harbach musical Roberta, Gagman Hope (aided by his writers) stuck to the creaky plot, but inserted his old vaudeville number Invitation to the Dance, convulsed the audience with typical, topical Hopela: "The President is getting off better drives -he has Sherman Adams' picture on the ball." For its 40th season, the famed old Muny, heavily challenged by TV, had turned to the star system-and with hopeful results: more than 12,000 showed up at the opera's best opening night ever...
...Barraud got a polite hearing but sent his audience delving into their programs in search of the unifying idea the music seemed to lack. CJ Peter Mennin's Piano Concerto, performed in Manhattan by the Cleveland Orchestra, which commissioned the work, along with eight others, to celebrate its 40th anniversary. The work by 34-year-old Juilliard Teacher Mennin was driving, gusty, brilliantly animated, but it often seemed more like an exercise in pure virtuosity than a statement of musical intent...
...Khrushchev's propaganda boys not to confuse his army's disciplined efficiency with their lectures about the party's supremacy. It was an awkward time for Khrushchev to strike; by then the marshal was touring Yugoslavia as Tito's honored guest, and the preparations for celebrating the Soviet's 40th anniversary were well under way in Moscow. But Khrushchev struck. His party machine whirred soundlessly. Within a week after Zhukov's return to Moscow, the Soviet Union's top soldier and war hero made an abject confession of "errors," and Khrushchev told foreign reporters with boozy insouciance: "In life...
Nikita's success was ratified at the ceremonies celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Soviet revolution in Moscow last November. China's Mao was so convinced of the Tightness of Khrushchev's policy reversal that he led the way for the adoption of Khrushchev's manifesto. Mao formally acknowledged the Soviet party's "leading role among the Communist and workers' parties," added: "China does not even have a quarter of a Sputnik and the Soviet Union...
...month ago, Hungary's Premier Janos Kadar returned from Moscow's 40th Anniversary celebration with new orders from his Kremlin bosses: finish off the trials of those who led the 1956 revolt, sentence them heavily, spare no one-priest, worker, soldier or political leader. Last week Kadar was zealously carrying out his orders. Currently in the dock were...