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Another former cover subject (he has appeared there twice) is France's Andre Malraux, art historian, revolutionary, novelist, flyer, archaeologist, Resistance hero, politician-and now De Gaulle's culture commissar. Fresh from his gala at the White House with the Kennedys, Malraux in Manhattan had some eloquent words to say on the subject of mass culture. Even the New York Times, which yields to no one in its readiness to print long texts of politicians' dull speeches, missed this lively one, which we quote from extensively in Modern Living...
...Santa Fe Opera, the Hamburg Staatsoper and the New York City Ballet, the dancers and singers were preparing gala evenings in his honor. In Mexico City and Melbourne. Johannesburg. Moscow and Tel Aviv, symphony orchestras were tuning up for concerts to celebrate his birthday. Recordings of the old man's music were at full flood, and the British Broadcasting Corp. was boldly planning a year's project to play all 102 of his works. But as he neared his 80th birthday, in company with another of the century's great creators (see ART), Igor Feodorovich Stravinsky...
...events (capacity: 20,000) and, Seattle hopes, national political conventions. A 3,100-seat opera house, built in the shell of Seattle's grimy old civic auditorium and lined with cherrywood and Italian marble, not only presents ballet and music to fairgoers (last week's opening night gala had Igor Stravinsky, the Seattle Symphony and Van Cliburn), but will serve as a new Seattle music center...
Fortnight ago at the gala International Auto Show in Geneva, both companies unveiled the new cars which they expect to put in even more U.S. garages. Volvo showed a stylish new station wagon (less than $3,000) for suburbanites; Saab offered a hot sports model ($3,000) well calculated to capitalize on the U.S. driver's growing fondness for pizazz. So high was public enthusiasm at the Geneva showings that both Saab and Volvo are confidently looking forward to their biggest spring orders ever. Neither new car, however, will go on sale in the U.S. until it has been...
Even in Los Angeles-the city of gala premières for everything from Hollywood spectaculars to hamburger stands-the "grand opening'' last week of the U.S.'s first big Japanese-owned department store created quite a splash. Within 15 minutes after Seibu of Los Angeles unlocked its door, 5,000 shoppers were inside, women were fainting, policemen had to bar all entrances to slow down the rush and traffic was backed up for four blocks along Wilshire Boulevard. By day's end Seibu's clerks had been buffeted by 40,000 Angelenos, who bought...