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...Enigma Variations, his last important ballet, created before he retired as the Royal's director. This time Ashton's gift for evoking another age is enhanced by a musical collage of Chopin. Julia Trevelyan Oman conceived the costumes and pale beige and blue furnishings of the sumptuous dacha, with ladies in flowing skirts and gentlemen in ivory frock coats. This is quite the prettiest ballet to light the stage of the Metropolitan Opera in some time and a high light of the Royal's current U.S. tour...
...Soviet elite is enjoying the biggest slice of the steady growth in national wealth. "There's more pie and more fat flies to share it," notes a Leningrad sociologist. On the woody outskirts of Moscow, the birch-shaded grounds of Khrushchev's old dacha at Petrovo-Dalneye are being torn up to make room for rows of mini-dachas, which look like motel cabins, for middle-rung apparatchiks. The system of special stores for top people, stocked with Western goods and local caviar, is expanding...
While the Chinese were ratifying their own leadership, rumors continued to circulate about the health and status of Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. Amidst official denials that anything was amiss, Soviet diplomats conceded privately that Brezhnev was suffering from pneumonia and recuperating in a dacha outside Moscow. They expressed confidence, however, that he would recover sufficiently to receive British Prime Minister Harold Wilson on his scheduled state visit to Moscow in mid-February. Meanwhile, the official party newspaper Pravda referred frequently and reverently to Brezhnev, as if to underscore his political wellbeing...
...days before, he had stood fascinated on the lush grounds of the Black Sea dacha of Leonid Brezhnev as the Soviet Communist chief demonstrated the collapsible glass wall around his Olympic-sized swimming pool, which Kissinger was repeatedly asked to swim in. Kissinger has listened to Brezhnev "order" him to Siberia for failing to yield enough in negotiations. His comeback: "I should be a member of the Politburo since I meet with you guys so much." Kissinger came away from a negotiating session with the Soviets and said, "I would do anything for caviar -and I may have...
...Europe to the Soviet Union during those talks. Hoping that Nixon would agree to meeting in the Livadiya Palace where F.D.R. had stayed, the Russians had refurbished the old summer residence of the czars. But when the White House objected, the meetings were moved to Brezhnev's handsome dacha, which was nearby...