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...youngest male champion in the history of the sport, he performed routines of exquisite difficulty with a mature, polished technique, though his prime was still years away. "At music schools, they say of such children that they have the absolute sense of pitch," says his coach, Aleksandr Aleksandrov. "With Dmitri, he has the absolute sense of the art of gymnastics...
...Britons like Diane Towler and Bernard Ford helped pioneer the ice- dancing form during the '60s. "Because they have a long history of ballroom dancing," says Button, "the British have been the most creative of ice dancers. It strikes a sensitive nerve in them." Soviets like Ludmilla Pakhomova and Aleksandr Gorshkov have also left their imprint on the form, but Torvill and Dean may be the first to reach the superstar status of such figure-skating soloists as Dorothy Hamill and Peggy Fleming. "All new skaters will in some way look like Torvill and Dean," says Button. "They are wonderfully...
...five Soviets declared "persona non grata" were identified as counselors Vasiliy Fedotov, Oleg Likhachev and Aleksandr Metelkin and attache Nikolay Kokovin, all at the embassy in Washington, and Lev Zaytsev, consul in San Francisco...
Some of the generals have been openly critical of Gorbachev's anti-military moves. An official Soviet commentator, Aleksandr Bovin, publicly acknowledged on Soviet television that Soviet "military comrades" were unhappy about some of Gorbachev's actions, particularly his decision to ban nuclear testing. They worry that the United States will have had a year and a quarter of additional testing while Gorbachev has held the Soviet Union back...
Ranging from Elbridge Gerry's call for a Stamp Tax prior to the American Revolution to Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's 1978 address denouncing western societal values, Harvard commencement speeches have continually had a national--and occasionally an international--impact...