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Short of that Draconian solution, Castro is doing what he can for the U.S. Negro. He hired Harlem's aging "Black Eagle," Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, to buy arms in Europe, and is currently giving Singer Marian Anderson the red-carpet treatment in Havana. Last year he invited Roy Campanella, Willie Mays, Joe Louis and Jackie Robinson to share his New Year's celebration in Havana...
...kissed him. Ike turned to meet the dozens of officials who made up the informal receiving line. Democratic and Republican leaders alike shook his hand; 24 officials from foreign embassies, who had come to the airfield on their own, added their greetings. The whole group lined the red carpet that Ike trod, reached out, shouting encouragement...
...next morning Nikita was at Orly Airport, on the same red carpet from which Eisenhower had departed three hours before. Khrushchev convulsed a covey of Soviet aides as he warned Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, about to take off for Manhattan to bring the U-2 spy charges before the United Nations. "Be careful of those imperialists," chortled Nikita. "Be careful to cover your back. Don't expose your back to them...
...ballet by "opening the icebox door," rummaging around inside and producing random combinations that look "appetizing."' Sometimes he finds pretty strange things in the icebox. His latest discovery: a rug. Balanchine was inspired by an analysis by Orientalist Arthur Upham Pope of the formal structure of Persian carpets, in which the patterns were compared to polyphony in music and some of the figures to fertility symbols. The resulting work, a diverse, pseudo-Oriental affair titled The Figure in the Carpet, had its première last week with the New York City Ballet, proved...
Manhattan witnessed other dance premières last week that made Balanchine's carpet look like a quiet family heirloom...