Word: opened
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Outside Leopoldville's ugly new Palace of Culture, a mob of his countrymen waited for Congolese Premier Patrice Lumumba to arrive for the opening of the Congo's much-heralded African "summit" conference. As Lumumba drove up elegantly in an open Lincoln Continental once reserved for Belgium's King Baudouin, the crowd suddenly hoisted signs reading "Fascist"' and "Dictator," burst into the distinctive "whoop, whoop, whoop" that is the Congolese version of a boo. Seemingly undismayed by their jeers -and by the fact that his summit conference had attracted mainly minor bureaucrats instead...
Wearing shorts and slim jims, a Stratford, Ont. Festival troupe in the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.'s Studio Seven in Toronto last week began a rigorous 100 hours of rehearsal before the mast of H.M.S. Pinafore. Six weeks hence, the Gilbert & Sullivan classic will open a Canadian fall television season full of attractions that many a U.S. viewer will envy...
...Open season on pollsters has arrived," wrote Dr. George Gallup last week, "and the shooting, as usual, comes from those who do not like the poll findings." As might be expected, the pollster being shot at the most was Gallup himself...
Milan Industrialist Giovanni Meneghini has an avocation that brought him nothing but grief in the past year. He fancies himself a talent scout and keeps his ears, heart and purse open for promising young operatic divas. His most notable find: sulphurous Soprano Maria Callas, 36, whom Meneghini. now 65. discovered, had trained under Italy's best voice cultivators, persuaded to diet off 70 Ibs. down to a svelte 135. Meneghini's biggest mistake, as it turned out. was to marry Maria; they are now legally separated after ten years of marriage, and she spends many unoperatic moments with...
...educators, foundation officials, and representatives of the U.S. and British governments. Drawing on their views, the Fund urged "a coordinated but not centralized" plan of U.S. aid from both public and private sources. It would focus on Africans "of highest promise," select students "only on merit and in open competition." The winners would be suitably financed for at least their first year in the U.S., get training specifically geared to their needs back home. As for overall supervision, concluded the Fund, "only the United States Government has the resources to finance promptly and adequately a scholarship program of this magnitude...