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Black Pobedas. Stevens traveled about Russia as much as Soviet restrictions would allow: from Leningrad on the Finnish Gulf to Tiflis in the Caucasus and Novosibirsk in central Siberia. Everywhere he found warmth and hospitality. In Tiflis, he and his wife asked directions of a Russian woman. An MVD officer came up and said: "It's forbidden to talk with a foreigner." The woman turned on the MVD man and shouted, "You fool! Don't try to tell me what to do!" She then offered to show the Stevenses the way, invited them to visit her home...
Over and over again Stevens had to warn Russians that friendship with an American would land them in trouble. On an excursion boat near Leningrad, he met a scholarly looking old man who turned out to be "a real friend, gentle and courtly, interesting and interested." As usual, Stevens had to break off the friendship to protect his Russian friend...
...defensive position, the Russians would not have to mass for a breakthrough. And if the defense formed around other weapons should not prove strong enough to protect them, the new atomic artillery pieces, outflanked and useless, might end up in the Red Army's Historical Artillery Museum in Leningrad...
...young Iron Curtain refugees turned up in London's Festival Hall last week and put on a rare show: a firsthand demonstration of contemporary Russian ballet style. They were Hungary's Istvan Rabovsky, 23, and his wife, Nora Kovach, 21, since 1949 leading dancers in the Leningrad, Moscow and Budapest Opera ballets. They danced the Grand Pas de Deux from Don Quixote-a circusy old number that gave little chance for high art but plenty for high jumps-with a kind of brilliant virtuosity that left balletomanes' toes twitching. Istvan won top honors with his incredible double...
...freedom to dance how and what the Rabovskys wish. Russian ballet companies stick closely to the classic repertory, e.g., Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Les Sylphides; in lavish productions with casts which regularly numbered several hundred, Nora and Istvan were only two of more than a dozen leading dancers, in Leningrad took leading roles only about four times a month. Many of the ballets for which they had been trained are now banned; Ravel's Bolero is "erotic," Stravinsky's Petrouchka is "decadent." Nora also likes to jitterbug, but when she tried it one night in a Budapest...