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...from Walt Disney World. One-way fare is $190 for a car and two people, and $20 extra for each additional person. Passengers ride in reclining chairs in domed coaches, see up to two free movies and eat two free meals. The menu frequently includes such dishes as chicken kiev, veal parmesan and ham with pineapple sauce. "We try to make each trip seem like a visit to a resort hotel," says Garfield, the chief executive, who has made a paper profit of some $3,420,000 on his stock in the company during the past year...
...with his new works. Ten years ago, in his only previous visit to the U.S.S.R. in half a century, Balanchine and the members of his New York City Ballet sent shock waves of excitement through the Soviet dance world. Now they were back for a five-week tour of Kiev, Leningrad, Tbilisi, Moscow, Lodz and Warsaw. Everywhere the S.R.O. sign...
...Jerome Robbins' Goldberg Variations (Bach), dances that eschew decor, spectacle and story line in favor of balanced and unbalanced compositions that are mod, sexy and athletic. The results were varied. The Georgians in their sunny Italianate capital, Tbilisi, responded more enthusiastically to those works than ballet-goers in Kiev and Leningrad. But more traditional Balanchine ballets like Symphony in C (Bizet) caught on at every stop. Balanchine's Who Cares? (Gershwin) was a steady crowd pleaser, though in Tbilisi and Moscow a stomach bug swept the company's ranks, forced last-minute cast changes, and prompted...
...likely to delight the First Lady as much as Peking's pandas did. The Nixons will fly to Leningrad for a day to visit the Summer Palace and the war cemetery of the victims of the city's World War II siege. They will also visit Kiev, where they are expected to go to the cathedral and a factory...
Died. Alexander Korneichuk, 66, playwright-politician who became one of the Soviet Union's most prominent literary loyalists; in Kiev. Because of his skill in blending party line with plot, Korneichuk won five Stalin Prizes and a number of political appointments during the 1930s and '40s. After Stalin's death, he allied himself with Nikita Khrushchev and in 1955 attacked the fallen secret police chief, Lavrenti Beria, in a play called Wings. It marked the start of Khrushchev's public assault on Stalinism. Korneichuk also survived Khrushchev's ouster, serving the present regime...