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...Foreign Affairs, Interior, and Finance, and the Director of Foreign Investments. The Newstour then visited a dusty slum area south of Mexico City, lunched with leaders of the P.R.I., Mexico's dominant political party, and dined at the Mexico City Museum while watching members of the famed Ballet Folklórico de Mexico perform dances from different periods of the country's history. The travelers were also provided with an impressive briefing at breakfast by U.S. Ambassador John Gavin...
...WallWalker has a certain Nipponese unpredictability: it never follows the same pattern twice in its wayward descent, seemingly pausing at times to reflect on its fate, at others engaging in a manic bout of activity. Many WallWalker buffs buy several of them at a time and mount a mural ballet. It is also cheap. More than 10 million in green, blue, yellow, red and black have been sold in the U.S. at between $1.69 and $2.50 since its introduction to a few cities late last year, and there are seemingly thousands more miles of wall for it to walk before...
BORN. To Valerie Velardi, 31, ballet dancer, and her husband of five years, Robin Williams, 30, hyperkinetic comic actor (Popeye, The World According to Garp and TV's Mork and Mindy): their first child, a son; in San Francisco. Name: Zachary. Weight...
They are known the world over for their ability to prance and dance with haughty grace and to leap like ballet stars. General George Patton was so charmed by their pirouettes that he ordered his troops in Austria to rescue the great snow-white horses from advancing Soviet forces at the close of World War II. Today the Lipizzaners face a new enemy: a deadly virus of the herpes family. The disease has not hit the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, the showcase for the horses, but by the end of last week it had killed seven mares...
...twirled in local folk dances. Battling the disapproval of his Tatar father, a Communist commissar, the youth made his way into Leningrad's celebrated Kirov company. Following his defection in Paris in 1961, he danced non-stop in virtually every Western company except the New York City Ballet. Now 45, he can still dance seven performances a week, apparently without tiring. Barnes insists that Nureyev can keep performing, albeit in increasingly less demanding roles, for 20 or 30 more years, though such endurance is rare among dancers. Certainly, the final color photo of Nureyev in this book seems emblematic...