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After weeks of deliberate Russian stalling, word came last week that Nikita Khrushchev had finally agreed to a ceasefire. Laos' peripatetic Prince Souvanna Phouma, after a daylong talk with Khrushchev himself, happily flew back toward Laos, proclaiming that the cease-fire would become effective as soon as he arrived...
Venice was also host last week to the world's most avant-garde explosion of pure sound-the first International Congress of Experimental Music. At daylong sessions, the audience settled down amid a welter of wires, loudspeakers and amplifiers to listen to the booms, moans, zips and roars that to some ears constitute the musical language of the future...
...Mobutu's troops had driven deep into Eastern province in an effort to smash the pro-Lumumba forces of Antoine Gizenga in Stanleyville. Gizenga's own troops launched new forays into Kasai province. Rampaging Lumum-baists in Kivu ambushed 200 U.N. Nigerian soldiers, provoking a pitched, daylong battle. In Katanga, Tshombe sent his Belgian-piloted airplanes to bomb the invaders of his province, killing none of the enemy but blasting innocent tribesmen and a missionary medical station...
...students hit the deck every morning at 7 for calisthenics and a daylong schedule that keeps them hopping until lights out at 9 or 9:30 p.m. There is no time for mental slouching. All boarding-school students, for example, major together in one foreign language (first choice: English) from second grade. But No. 2's students have a rockier road to mastery than most: they grapple with Chinese. All studies fill 4½ hours of formal classes and up to two hours of homework, six days a week...
When newspaper critics greeted The Dark with cheers last week and daylong lines began forming at the box office, Inge could chalk up a topflight commercial and critical record on Broadway. His previous hits: Come Back, Little Sheba (1950), with Shirley Booth; Picnic (1953), a Pulitzer Prizewinner; and Bus Stop (1955), with Kim Stanley. Hollywood bought all three. Inge's total take: close to a million dollars...