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Missing the Circus. Rusk usually tried to arrange appointments so that ministers from the same geographic area did not follow one another; thus two Europeans, or two Asians, normally would not meet in the doorway. Similarly, he favored mixing "problem" countries with "no problem" countries-so that he could have a breather between controversial sessions. Sometimes "problem" ministers proved to be just the contrary. Czechoslovakia's Foreign Minister Vaclav David, after probing for areas in which the U.S. and Czechoslovakia could expand trade, turned willingly to discussion of one longstanding problem. The Czechs, who in the past have refused...
...busy week, both frustrating and fruitful, with more of the same in the offing. Though the Secretary's wife had hoped to drag him away for an evening at the Russian circus in Madison Square Garden, in the end she had to go without him. In fact, except for one evening when they had a quiet dinner at the Swiss Pavilion, the Rusks hardly saw each other...
Imagine a circus being performed in an operating amphitheater. It seems a bit clinical, but that's more or less what has been happening since the Great Moscow Circus arrived in Manhattan last week. Americans accustomed to the fanfaring, drum-rolling, three-ring mesmeric confusion of the P. T. Barnum tradition are asked to crowd in close and watch single acts performed in a small single ring. Whole tiers of the high seats at Madison Square Garden are deliberately left unsold. There is no parade. There are no spangled multitudes. There are no barkers, and even the soda-peanut...
Tuesday, September 17 Greatest Show on Earth (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). A new adventure series in which Jack Palance is the ringmaster of a Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey Circus. In this hour-long episode, Harry Guardino plays the role of a lion trainer who endangers his own life as well as that of some female jugglers...
Adopted from the start, and strictly adhered to since, was a decision to exclude works by living artists. The most modern paintings acquired so far are a John Marin circus scene and Childe Hassam's Flag Day, a 1917 impressionist view of the Stars and Stripes arrayed along Manhattan's Fifth Avenue...