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World: I DREAMED I WENT TO MOSCOW IN .

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Trying to consolidate its power both as the center of the Communist world and as “coexistence” partner of the West, Moscow these days draws to itself an evergrowing number of commuters from all fields. Apart from the recent Chinese delegation and the Western test ban negotiators, arrivals and departures were proceeding around the clock. A partial timetable:

July 22

0815—U.S. track team leaves for Warsaw after being defeated by a squad of Russian stars.

0840—Actress Susan Strasberg and the USIA’s George Stevens Jr. depart after representing the U.S. at the Moscow Film Festival.

1600—Political delegation from Ghana flies in as guests of the Central Committee of the Communist Party.

1700—East Germany’s Red Boss Walter Ulbricht arrives for Comecon meeting.

July 23

0900—Producer Stanley Kramer exits for Rome via Prague after serving as festival judge.

0945—Rumania’s President Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej arrives.

0945—Group of Norwe-gia”hT French, Austrian and East German children whose parents fought the Nazis come by train to tour Russia.

1205—India’s Indira Gandhi, daughter of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, planes in to visit Indian National Exhibition in Moscow.

1600—Poland’s First Secretary Wladyslaw Gomulka arrives.

1715—Colombian parliamentary delegation arrives for visit as guests of the Supreme Soviet.

1800—Impresario Sol Hurok flies in to arrange for the Bolshoi Ballet’s U.S. tour.

July 24

0940—Parliamentary delegation from the Congo (Leopoldville) detrains on way from Kiev.

1135—Vazgen I, Patriarch of all Armenia, comes to visit Patriarch Aleksei of Russia.

1945—Israeli Communist Party delegation arrives.

2005—Soviet national diving team flies to East Germany.

July 25

0450—Indonesian Communist Party delegation leaves to visit Havana.

1730—Bil and Cora Baird and their puppet act plane out for Leningrad.

July 27

1015—Harriman flies to Hyannis Port.

1020—Hailsham leaves for London.

July 29

1015—U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman flies in from Leningrad after an agricultural tour of the Soviet Union.

1330—American Circus leaves Moscow for Leningrad.

1630—Delegation of U.S. businessmen arrives to study Soviet electrical facilities.

July 31

0820—U.S. delegation on “diseases common to man and animals” returns to Moscow following six-week tour of the Soviet Union.

Obviously in a class by herself was Ida Rosenthal, board chairman of the U.S.’s Maidenform brassiere company, who appeared for a fashion survey. She dreamed she went to Moscow in her .

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