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...turn. Rudolf Nureyev has frequently dropped in on the Great White Way, but always surrounded by a definitely subordinate cast of professionals. Natalia Makarova, probably the world's prima ballerina, aimed both higher and lower. She attracted a stunning array of top ballet stars: Fernando Bujones, Anthony Dowell, Cynthia Gregory, Denys Ganio, Elisabetta Terabust, Karen Kain and Peter Schaufuss. But to fill out the ranks, Makarova raided ballet schools for 29 youngsters, almost all lacking professional experience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Makarova: New Whirl in Town | 10/20/1980 | See Source »

...neurological disorders, cancer and birth defects in their offspring. Residents of the Love Canal area of Niagara Falls, N.Y., are no less distressed. They are convinced that the toxic wastes buried there have led to nerve damage, miscarriages and other ailments, including mental retardation among their children. Says Housewife Cynthia Bassett: "It's as if we're all mutants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Toxicity Connection | 9/22/1980 | See Source »

...legion of U.S. swimmers would have been top choices for gold medals. Among them: Tracy Caulkins, Mary Meagher, Cynthia Woodhead, Linda Jezek, Brian Goodell, Rowdy Gaines, Mike Bruner and Steve Lundquist. The East German women could now win as many as eleven golds. In men's swimming, the Soviets will benefit most from the American withdrawal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bearish Beginning in Moscow | 7/21/1980 | See Source »

...what? No one could say. And, even more puzzling to the people of the northeast Texas farm town was Alvin Lee King himself. Raised in Corpus Christi by parents who owned a liquor store, pawnshop and jukebox leasing company, King came to Daingerfield in 1966 with Wife Gretchen, Daughter Cynthia and Son Alvin Lee King IV to teach high school math. That same year, while King was visiting his parents in Corpus Christi, he was examining a 12-gauge shotgun when it somehow discharged, killing his father. The coroner ruled the death accidental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: This Is War! | 7/7/1980 | See Source »

Five years later, his house burned down under mysterious circumstances, and King moved his family to the 100-acre farm, where he raised peas and cucumbers, collected guns and practiced judo. As far as most people in Daingerfield were concerned, the Kings had dropped from sight until Cynthia, 21, showed up at the police station last October and complained that for ten years her father had been forcing her to have sex with him. She told the officers that she had finally decided to file charges of incest against him at the urging of a friend, Stanley Sinclair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: This Is War! | 7/7/1980 | See Source »

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