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...virtual withdrawal from SEATO by sending only an observer to last week's SEATO conference in London. Running out of targets, he even took a swipe at Britain's commitment to defend Malaysia if Sukarno's Indonesia ever decides to carry out its threat to "crush" the new nation...
Nureyev will be afforded better opportunities to display his virtuosity in La Bayadere and Swan Lake, though to bolster box-office sales the Royal Ballet refuses to announce which nights he will perform. The crush for tickets has been so great that every performance was virtually sold out before the company arrived. Scalpers are having a field day, and box-office lines along the tour route stretch from Baltimore to Seattle...
...year. What's more, it was also the beginning of Passover. It should have been double cyanide for the grosses. Instead, the first customers lined up at 2 a.m., and by 8, when the doors opened, the crowd was so thick that people were getting sick. The crush broke the glass on the cashier's box, and the money came in so hand-over-fist that it had to be carted off repeatedly in cardboard boxes...
...soon touring the local hospitals with the school troupe. One night the Ufa Opera Ballet imported a name ballerina and, though he did not have the price of a ticket, Nureyev went by the theater determined somehow to get in. As fate would have it, the crush of the crowd was so great that the doors of the theater collapsed and in he went. It was the first ballet he had ever seen. "Watching the dancers that night," he recalls, "I had the absolute certitude that I had been born to dance...
...second, demagogic, category of Asian leaders, the worst is Indonesia's Sukarno, whose campaign to "crush Malaysia" as a "neocolonialist" plot furnishes Indonesia with a phony national purpose and distracts attention from his own disastrous misrule. Even Sandhurst-educated President Ayub Khan of Pakistan plays up "the Indian menace" to strengthen his political hand, warns darkly: "India wants to settle every dispute with force and aggression...