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Zangheri's heresies-he regularly chews out the Soviets for suppressing intellectual freedom-might leave voters confused about whether he is really a Communist at all. But it hardly matters; on ballots, the party identifies itself as the Two Towers, after a Bologna landmark. The word "Communist" never even appears...
...town. He built a roadside assortment of children's delights: merry-go-rounds, a zoo, a miniature train, donkey rides, toy stores, snack shops-all painted red and white and encrusted with Christmas decorations. Above the largest shop in the village, a 20-foot concrete Santa, his landmark, protruded from the chimney. Auger presided over it all in a red suit and white beard, ho-hoing and passing out free candy to his young visitors. "We didn't make any money on the place. You see I didn't think I'd live long then...
Movement and Metaphor: Four Centuries of Ballet by Lincoln Kirstein. 290 paqes. Praeger. $17.50. A delightfully idiosyncratic history of classic dance by the co-founder and general director of the New York City Ballet. It minutely and wisely analyzes 50 landmark ballets, from Balthasar de Beau-joyeulx to George Balanchine. Kirstein's prose is suave and evocative. The stunning black and white illustrations, many of them never before reproduced, are a far cry from the expectable salon-photography narcissism...
...Great Eastern, has led to the extinction of some older stores in the central city. San Francisco's H. Liebes & Co., a women's specialty shop that opened more than a century ago, will shut down after Christmas. Manhattan's Best & Co., a Fifth Avenue landmark, recently sold its lease to a syndicate including Aristotle Onassis; the syndicate intends to raze the building and put an office tower on the site...
...eternal flame flickers over the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Against that setting, countless Frenchmen, who only a week before had solemnly laid a great floral Cross of Lorraine there to honor Charles de Gaulle, nodded approval of the demonstrators who marched down the Champs-Elysees toward the great landmark proclaiming: "Leave us our Etoile...