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Everywhere there are signs of Nikita's three grandsons, the children of his daughter Rada and Izvestia Editor Aleksei Adzhubei. Toys and bikes are parked near flower beds. Aleksei Jr., a towheaded eight-year-old with hornrimmed glasses, zooms around in a green, gasoline-powered Cheetah Cub Car, an American-made miniature sports model that Dad picked up on a visit to the U.S. The seat of the Cheetah is covered with real leopard skin...
...bright pannikin eyes and a look-ma smile, he seems to have been formed by a head-on collision between Mickey Rooney and John Fitzgerald Kennedy. He is the little ploy next door, and the vast delight of How to Succeed is in watching this studiously naive charming cub cheetah knock the spots off a pack of ravenous yes-men. After each victory Morse turns to the audience with a collaborative expression on his face that somehow touches a sympathetic nerve in every expense accountable soul in the house, who recognizes both the tactic and the impulse...
...Africans -no similar document of this same relationship is likely to be drawn up again." Many writers affect to understand Africa; Author Dinesen accepts and respects its opacities ("All roots demand darkness"). She draws a memorable portrait of Farah, her face-conscious Somali majordomo, "unfailingly loyal, a cheetah noiselessly following me about at a distance of five feet, or a falcon holding onto my finger with strong talons and turning his head right and left...
Quiet Village (Martin Denny Group; Liberty). A smoothly arranged fancy with the theme laid down in beguine tempo by Pianist Denny, and bongo color provided by Hawaiian Percussionist Augie Colon, who is inclined to caterwaul like a turkey buzzard., croak like a frog, or shriek like a cheetah. Blended with Buddhist bells, Burmese cymbals and the West Indian guiro, these noises so far this year have helped sell 60,000 Denny albums, all labeled like bargain-counter perfumes -Exotica, Hypnotique, Afro-Desia...
...last month as an athletic ambassador. Excitable French newsmen were dazzled, saw in him the epitome of Edgar Rice Burroughs' jungle boy. "Bragg, the Tarzan of athletics, knocked the breath out of the Paris public." gasped the Paris France-Soir. "If gentle Jane had kneeled beside him. and Cheetah had jumped to his side," thrilled the Paris-Presse, "nobody would have been surprised...