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Wearing dark business suits and sober expressions despite the warm weather, the party leaders marched up the red-carpeted stairs in twos and threes and made their way inside to the massive Spanish Hall, with its high ceiling and Bohemian crystal chandeliers. When the tall, blue-eyed boss of the Czechoslovak Communist Party got out of his car, the crowd pressed closer for a better look and reporters broke into applause. Unaccustomed to such public displays, Alexander Dubček, 46, merely tipped his grey fedora, smiled hesitantly and strode briskly inside. More than any other man in Czechoslovakia...
...THOMSON: Senator, let me throw out a quick comment on that. It belongs so clearly in the crystal ball realm that anyone who would pretend to give you an answer is deluding himself. We see through a glass darkly here, and any pretense to an understanding of who will suc-Mao--and even if we knew who he was, what he would do--involves self-delusion...
Freshman ski stars Jay O'Rere and Alan Watson finished in the middle of an international field of 78 skiers at the National Alpine Championships held March 8, 9, and 10 at Crystal Mountain in Washington...
...scene was an apt symbol of Haiti and the Americans who go there in pursuit of the crystal-white, palm-fringed beaches, sparkling blue water, and hot Caribbean sun. Tourists marvel at the dramatic color of the Haitian landscape, its coconut, papaya, and mango trees, its high jagged mountains, and its sharp cliffs and quiet coves. They drink Haitian rum, watch the colorful folklore shows, and swing at night to the fast rhythms of the Haitian music. And most take a curious look at the native culture and its black primitivism...
Died. Doretta Morrow, 42, onetime Broadway beauty, star in The King and I and Kismet; of cancer; in London. Blessed with a crystal soprano, she rose to stardom as Tuptim in 1951's The King and I, went to Hollywood in Because You're Mine with Mario Lanza, and returned to more cheers with Alfred Drake in 1953's Kismet-then in 1960 tossed it all aside to marry a London insurance executive...