Word: georgians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Also in the tour repertory: The Partisans, an episode in the lives of a group of World War II guerrilla fighters, in which the black-clad dancers move in startling imitation of galloping horsemen to the music of a Georgian Lezghinka; Spring Dances from the Ukrainian Suite, which opens with a slow, weaving dance evocation of the melancholy a Ukrainian girl feels when her lover leaves for the front, ends with a bravura blaze of tremendous Gopak leaps as the lover returns triumphant to the village. In contrast with scenes more or less mirroring Soviet life, there are evocations...
Across one-sixth of the world's land surface, the dictatorship of the Soviet proletariat campaigned for re-election last week on a platform of peace, bread, and four more years of all-out effort to "catch up with the West." In snowbound Lettish villages, in orange-scented Georgian watering places, in Uzbek desert oases, the same red-and-white signs marked the local "agitpunkt" campaign headquarters for the 1,364 unopposed candidates running for election to the Supreme Soviet. At rallies everywhere candidates, including the country's top bosses, blared campaign promises as if they really needed...
Sheepishly, Sir Strati told the court that he had kept Jacqueline as his mistress for 16 years, tucking her away in an $84,000 Georgian house in St. John's Wood, with her mother as chaperone. When he called (always at noontime), Jacqueline sent her mother to the movies. Three years ago he found himself "getting a bit frail" and tried to break off the liaison. Jacqueline objected; there were telephone calls, and a somewhat ruffled Sir Strati had to confess to his wife to prevent Jacqueline's turning up while a birthday party for his grandchildren...
...reported fully booked because clerks hold out large blocks to satisfy any last-minute demand by Soviet VIPs. A foreigner can usually wangle a seat at the last moment, even if a nontitled Soviet citizen must be bumped just before takeoff. In flight, meals are heavy and ordinary, include Georgian wines, vodka and cognac. The piston planes are un-pressurized, and many of the TU-1O4 jets are pressurized to a cabin altitude of only 9,000 ft. (v. 5,000 ft. for U.S. planes), carry oxygen masks next to each seat for passengers who cannot stand the thin...
...Note. Freed on $7,500 bail, Christine at week's end was home again, intending to go back to classes, faced with a possible trial for vehicular homicide and grand larceny. She wandered aimlessly through the Nystroms' three-story Georgian house, once sat down to pen a short, sad note to Sperling's wife and son: "I wish it could have been me, instead of he, who died." Her pastor called to pray with her; a psychiatrist chatted with her for an hour and concluded: "I guess it amounts to the fact that there are two Christine...