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...monster on his deathbed and then dropping to his knees in slobbering sycophancy as the unconscious dictator raises an arm in eerily imperious command. Most striking photographs: the corps de ballet of the Bolshoi company dancing Swan Lake as if in shimmering blue moonlight; a row of Leningrad citizens in bathing suits, queuing up for a bit of winter sunshine...
...indoor season, Shavlakadze withdrew from active competition. Not Brumel. A dark-haired, 6 ft. 1 in. Ukrainian, Brumel laughed at the long-popular theory that a high jumper can go no more than one foot above his own head, last month leaped 7 ft. 4½ in. in Leningrad to set an unofficial world indoor record, top Thomas' indoor best by 1½ in. In the buildup for last week's contest, Boston U.'s public relations chief quoted Thomas as saying of Brumel's jump: "I want to see it before I'll believe...
Grain Trust. A continuation of Seeds of Tomorrow (1935), the novel deals panoramically with the forced collectivization of Russian farmers in the 19305 -a Stalinesque operation that cost 4,000,000 lives. Seimion Davidov, an earnest, gap-toothed sailor from Leningrad, is one of the 25,000 Communist workers sent out to knock the peasants' heads together and get the farms producing for the state...
Others to Visit Leningrad...
...other Harvard professors besides Billington will lecture at the University of Leningrad this pring. Kenneth T. Bainbridge, professor of Physics, noted for his work on the mass spectroscope, and Paul D. Bartlett, Erving Professor of Chemistry and researcher in organic reactions, will leave in April for the Soviet Union...