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...high point of the Lenin gala, it was Brezhnev who commanded the brightest spotlight and biggest headlines. Before an audience including 66 foreign delegations, Brezhnev rose in the Kremlin's modernistic Palace of Congresses to deliver a three-hour, 82-page speech. (Kosygin followed the next day with a talk that lasted all of ten minutes.) Pausing only to sip cherry-flavored water, Brezhnev spoke self-confidently on a wide range of subjects, taking a tough but carefully qualified attitude. Nations fighting against imperialism, he said, will always have in Russia "a reliable and true friend." Enlightened circles in "bourgeois...
...this sense of tragedy is often overshadowed. Less than a year after the six-day war, I attended the gala 20th Independence Day military parade in Jerusalem and found the whole country going wild over captured tanks. Soon afterwards I went to a movie depicting the six-day war in bloody, tragic, and all too real terms; the Israelis loved...
...panache that Thomas Hoving has displayed ever since he became director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art three years ago. Mrs. Richard Nixon flew from Washington to help inaugurate a show of 19th century American art. Next day, Manhattan's finest and richest turned up at another gala to celebrate, for the fifth time this season and for $125 apiece, the 100th anniversary of the museum. There was waltzing to a Meyer Davis orchestra in the Arms and Armor Court, frugging to Watson and the Sherlocks in the Fountain Restaurant, and the guest list filled the society columns...
...Lenin is now being raised in contemporary Russia. For those who rule the Soviet Union today are an elite corps of self-serving bureaucrats who manipulate and mismanage 200 million lives in the name of Leninist principles. The crude, exploitative commercialism with which the Moscow regime is staging its gala event is but an example of how a handful of men in power have been able to impose on an entire nation the tastes, the preferences, the idiosyncratic perversities...
...David, Brandt alighted from a blue Mercedes with his attractive Norwegian wife Rut, to be greeted on the White House lawn by President Nixon. Cannons boomed out a 16-gun salute, and the red-jacketed Marine band struck up the traditional Deutschlandlied. The Brandts were also feted at a gala White House dinner and entertained by the redoubtable Pearl Bailey. To the tune of Hello, Dolly, Miss Bailey belted out "Hello, Richard" in honor of the evening's host, added a chorus of "Hello, Willy" in honor of the guest...