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TODAY would have marked the 50th birthday of one of this country's greatest humanitarians, the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King served this country in a way that is evident in every facet of American life from restaurants to stores, to schools and even the United States' ambassadorial seat in the United Nations. He was a man who dearly loved his country and cared for its people. It is a sad and disgraceful thought that this country refuses officially to remember...
...everyone was won over to the beauties of the 50th state, however. The Dunster House weekly calendar listed a Long Island table [to which Westchesterites would also be invited] for the next night, and in the wings were vague rumblings of an all-out East Coast scum night--complete with baggy pants, down jackets and attache cases. They talked of acting out a Bronx street mugging...
...Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in New York City. (Missing from that extravaganza, however, will be the familiar figure of Mickey Mouse. Walt Disney officials, who control appearances by replicas of the celebrated mouse, do not want him to become too familiar during the celebrations of his 50th birthday. Last week his chief sortie was to a White House party given by Amy Carter, where he got a hug from the hostess's father...
This year--close to the 50th anniversary of Baker's exodus--his ghost has returned to visit the old haunt, in the form of Robert S. Brustein, dean of the Yale School of Drama and director of the Yale Repertory Theater...
...square of Brno, Czechoslovakia (pop. 365,000). Up went huge posters of an intense-looking, white-haired man who could be a commanding commissar but who, in Brno at least, is more venerated than any socialist leader: Czech Composer Leoš Janáček. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of its composer's death and the 125th of his birth, Brno has opened a yearlong Janacek celebration, beginning with 27 musical events in a two-week-long gala festival. Students, soldiers and scores of foreign scholars jammed six concert halls for the performances, including fully staged productions...