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...pour even more military aid-possibly even troops-into shaky South Viet Nam. But also in Asia, Red China's immense economic crisis will surely force a cutback in industrial goals, just as the 1958 crop failure required a drastic revision downward of the "Great Leap Forward." In the Philippines, Burma and Malaya, Communist rebellions have been almost completely erased. Perhaps more important, spectacular industrial gains in Japan have undercut the influence of the divided local Communist Party and moderated the anti-Americanism of the left-wing Socialists, which reached a peak two years ago when anti...
Natalie did not reach the top rung in one leap: she has been in films for nearly 20 years. Most of her credits are best forgotten, but there were enough big hits -Miracle on 34th Street, Rebel Without a Cause, Marjorie Morningstar-to keep her career moving upward. It began in Santa Rosa, Calif., when four-year-old Natalie-then Natasha Gurdin-went with her Russian-immigrant mother to watch the filming of Happyland. Even then she was a raving beauty, and Director Irving Pichel plucked her out of the crowd to give her a bit part. In her next...
...Frills. For balletomanes who know the Bolshoi, the Kirov offers a striking contrast. Where the Bolshoi is flamboyant, dramatic and unabashedly fond of popular acclaim, the Kirov is precise, understated, a trifle aristocratic. The Bolshoi's prima ballerina may dash the length of the stage to leap into Prince Siegfried's arms with breathtaking drama in the Black Swan pas de deux of Swan Lake; Zubkovskaya takes a few brief steps and makes the leap with a rippling grace that is equally breathtaking. The Kirov's tempo is more often a stately adagio than a flashy presto...
...China's leaders these days no longer talk of the great leap forward, but of the "law of undulating progress." It means, presumably, that every economic leap is inevitably followed by a backward stagger. Most of China's hapless millions were wondering when the staggering would stop and the leaps begin...
...Last Leap. The Communists have carefully blocked other loopholes. The entrance to the Church of the Reconcilia tion, which faces on West Berlin, was bricked up. Apartments fronting on the border have been bricked and boarded up on the first floors, and their tenants relocated. The upper floors still offer an uncertain access to freedom. On the side walk of No. 48 Bernauerstrasse, a wreath and tin can of flowers mark the place where a woman leaped to her death trying to escape. But last week a young student knocked on the door of a second-floor apartment on Luckauerstrasse...