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DIED. Andre Eglevsky, 59, Russian emigre ballet dancer who started out with the Colonel de Basil Ballet Russe at age 14, was much in demand in the U.S. in the '40s and '50s as a leading dancer and, after that, as a coach who worked with such performers as Mikhail Baryshnikov and Fernando Bujones; of a heart attack; in Elmira, N.Y., where his touring company was performing The Nutcracker...
...blared Soviet slogans across the 20-acre expanse of Moscow's Red Square. Thousands of paratroops, rangers, sailors and soldiers chorused "Uuuhhh-raaah! Uuuhhh-raaah!" then goose-stepped smartly across the ancient cobblestones outside the Kremlin. Gun salutes echoed around the snow-shrouded, onion-shaped spires of St. Basil's Cathedral. Unmistakably, the theme of the three-hour parade that marked last week's 60th anniversary of the Soviet Revolution was brute strength...
...sophisticated communications network, the companies employed "agents." bagmen who, for exorbitant fees, greased palms and took advantage of contacts. Kermit Roosevelt, Teddy's grandson who engineerred a coup for the benefit of the present Shah of Iran, was merely following the example set 65 years ago by Sir Basil Zaharoff. The arms market flourished in this past era, when the industrialized nations traded amongst each other as well as exploiting the undeveloped countries. By "gingering up" a few Chilean generals or instigating a local war between Arab chieftains, Zaharoff claimed to have sold "more arms than anyone else...
...forth "psychological vibrations" that affect our lives. Summarizing four studies that sampled public reaction to first names, Andersen, who writes for PEOPLE magazine, lists "894 Names and What They Really Mean." The results will displease people named Martha -which psychologically vibrates to mean "unexciting"-Patricia (plain), Mark (spoiled) and Basil (sinister...
...community divided. At one point state police move strikers back forcibly so scabs' cars can get to the mine. Oater, one of the men shouts in a state policeman's face, "Bailey! I know you! You're a damn disgrace to the Bailey family!" Somebody says of Basil Carr, "He had the nerve to run for sheriff." Later the sheriff will try to get strikers to jove a car out of the roadway so scabs can get through, and Lois Scott, a leader of the miners' wives, attacks him for aiding with the scabs. The community's feelings spring...