Word: ballerinas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...successful law firm, expanded into cattle, shrimp fishing and publishing (four newspapers), then became President (1932-36). His son Gilberto, twice served as Finance Minister; Son Roberto, was Panama's Ambassador to Britain (1955-58), but is better known for other excursions. In 1959, with his wife, British Ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn, he was accused of smuggling arms aboard his yacht in a musical-comedy invasion of Panama from Cuba...
...That's quite a name you've got there," Bolshoi Ballet Master Leonid Lavrovsky told the young ballerina. "If you turn out to be a good dancer you can keep it." The dancer's name was Natalia Bessmertnova, and since in Russian that means Natalie the Immortal, its owner seemed destined to carry it awkwardly-like a steamer trunk with fancy labels. Last week, with barely two months as a Bolshoi soloist behind her, Bessmertnova was established in Moscow's excited ballet world as decidedly bessmertnova-even more so, said her teachers, than the immortal Ulanova...
...Like a ballerina bereft of her balance, Hurricane Arlene whirled on a curious course through the Atlantic to open the 1963 storm season. Her wild dance subsided to a gale-force pirouette, then suddenly spun back to hurricane size at week's end. Though she finally seemed headed out to sea, Arlene's sisters* may even now be waiting in the wings. But when they begin their destructive spin toward the U.S. East Coast, they will be met by a group of storm-killing scientists who hope to learn how to stop them...
...20th century master Igor Stravinsky conducts his own Petrouchka suite, the Two Little Suites and Scherzo a La Russe. To add the final touch of diversity, the New York City Ballet will appear Aug. 6-11, performing two of George Balanchine's latest ballets. The greatest U.S. prima ballerina, Maria Tallchief, has just rejoined the company. ∙ASPEN (June 26-Aug. 25) is the headiest of the festivals. To begin with, it is 7,900 ft. above sea level amid Colorado's breathtaking Rocky Mountain scenery. The nine-week music festival runs in tandem with the skull-stretching...
...Geraldine Chaplin, 18, ballerina daughter of Charlie Chaplin and Oona O'Neill, plans a professional career, has danced before the Queen Mother...