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Davletbay Khodzhabov's Cossack riders provide the most spectacular display. Six of them in red jackets and high white hats race around the ring, swinging from side to side, picking up flags, and holding on with their feet as their arms drag on the ground, while a seventh stands in the center cracking a long leather bullwhip...

Author: By Daniel J. Chasan, | Title: The Moscow Circus | 10/16/1963 | See Source »

...serene results it has accomplished in America. Women workers in an Argentine flour mill who used to fight and scream at each other on sight, now go to work peaceably to music's soft accompaniment. Passengers on the Trans-Siberian Railroad suffer the trip to the tune of Cossack songs and band music, and a brothel in Stuttgart has applied for the "Light Industrial" program local Muzak men offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Background Music: But It's Good for You | 8/30/1963 | See Source »

...wisely done away with all of the original verr-ee French accents. But he has added an ingredient that was perhaps mercifully lacking on the stage: where the theater's Irma was the only girl on view, the screen now swings with poules on parade-Kiki the Cossack in fur-topped boots, Lolita in heart-shaped sunglasses, the Zebra Twins, and a nameless tart with a cantilevered bust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Just Lucky, I Guess | 6/21/1963 | See Source »

...when Laurence G. Hoes, 63, great-great-grandson of Monroe, pressed a copy of the Monroe Doctrine on Russian Counselor Igor Kolosovski, 42. "Give this to Premier Khrushchev," suggested Hoes, "and tell him the Monroe Doctrine is very much alive." Nyet, snorted Kolosovski, "a dead document." Immediately followed a Cossack chorus of "dead document, dead document," until Hoes added: "It got you out of Cuba." At that, the argument palled, and his Soviet guests went off to gather some documentation of their own-taking pictures of each other atop Fredericksburg's pre-Civil War slave block...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 10, 1963 | 5/10/1963 | See Source »

Widow's Sob. Not a Cossack but a sugar refinery worker, Roman Popovich, 57, wept with joy outside his home in the Ukraine in front of the photographers who gathered to catch his reaction at the news of his son's landing. In the Chuvash Republic, Anna Nikolayev, 62, a widowed peasant woman, tugged at her handkerchief and sobbed. Newspapers all over the world carried the photos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: The Heavenly Twins | 8/24/1962 | See Source »

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