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Sophomore cross-country star Walt Hewlett finished 12th out of a field of more than 170 runners in the annual NCAA championships at Michigan State yesterday. Crimson captain Ed Meehan ran 70th...
Anticipating President Kennedy's tumultuous West Berlin reception, Nikita Khrushchev hastily arranged a trip of his own. He decided to go to East Berlin, ostensibly to celebrate the 70th birthday of East Germany's spade-bearded Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht. Just 48 hours after Kennedy, on the west side of the Wall, had cried, "I am a Berliner," Khrushchev arrived on the east side, bent on showing that he was a Berliner...
Togetherness. Such Happenings set just the right tone for a festival honoring the 70th year of Darius Milhaud, and when Composer Milhaud turned up in the Mills Concert Hall, he had a Happening of his own ready to fit the occasion. The hall was aswim with students, colleagues and devotees as Milhaud conducted the first performance of the 401st composition of his long career-a Suite de Quatrains for seven instruments and the speaking voice of his wife Madeleine. To the delight of the admiring audience, the Suite turned out to be a "chance" work, in which all seven players...
...current exhibitions are not intentionally related; yet they all seem like instruments-some reedy, some pure, some weak, some strong-of a single symphony. In Buffalo last week, two galleries paid homage to Local Boy Charles Burchfield on his 70th anniversary, while France was paying homage to Eugène Delacroix on the 100th anniversary of his death. At one Burchfield opening, 700 admirers crowded about their hero to wish him well; in Paris, the air was filled with talk of Delacroix-the huge show coming at the Louvre, the appetizer exhibitions now on view in Paris and Bordeaux...
After Stalin's 70th birthday in 1949, it took Pravda 22 months to print all the names of his well-wishers. Last week, on the tenth anniversary of the tyrant's death, there was not a single mention by press or radio of the man Nikita Khrushchev once fulsomely praised as "our great leader, our friend and father, the greatest man of our epoch." In all of Moscow's millions, only a single anonymous soul dared to pay respects-with three rubles worth of yellow mimosa on Stalin's black marble slab near the Kremlin wall...