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Margot Fonteyn, a little past her great ballerina days at 43, has found in Russian Dancer Rudolf Nureyev, 24, one of the most satisfactory partners of her career. They make quite a pair. Seventeen months have now passed since he defected in Paris from the Kirov Ballet company of Leningrad (TIME, June 23, 1961). Dancing with Fonteyn, Nureyev has gained in control and assurance without losing any of the instinctive stage sense that made him an immediate hit. Audiences seem absorbed with every movement of his small, compact body, every expression of his high-cheekboned face. When he has completed...
...calmest place for an American during a cold-war crisis may well be the universities in Moscow or Leningrad, where 22 U.S. graduate students and teachers this year are pursuing research projects from art to psychology. The atmosphere is one of disengaged scholarship, and the attitude of the Russian colleagues, says one American, is "marvelous, nothing but sweetness and light." Such cooperation is making a heartening success out of a U.S.Russian exchange program that since 1958 has been sending Americans to Russia for up to one year of graduate study...
...U.S.S.R. there are two Leningrad Philharmonics, which take turns giving concerts to sellout crowds. The present touring orchestra is regarded not only as the better of the two, but as the best orchestra in the country. The status is understandable because Mravinsky, the Soviet Union's best conductor, has had the Leningrad under his baton since 1938. The rehearsal facilities he has available to him would make any Western conductor envious: for a new or particularly difficult work there is absolutely no restriction on rehearsal time. But unlike some conductors, Mravinsky does not exhort his men to superhuman efforts...
Even before he reached his teens, Lev Davidovic Landau was a mathematical prodigy. Before he graduated from the University of Leningrad, the youngster from Azerbaijan was publishing respected scientific papers. As he developed into one of the Soviet Union's leading scientists, he became an expert in many of the far-ranging fields of physics. If he resented the fact that he was rarely trusted to go abroad unchaperoned to collect the numerous awards he won from admiring Western colleagues, he gave no indication. He went right on working, and last week he got his biggest prize...
...world: a fleet of all-reserved, streamlined European expresses that connect 90 cities, average 70 m.p.h., have stenographers, stewardesses and Silberputzer to keep the chrome shining. Russia also is following the express trend, recently sent a special eleven-car train speeding 109 m.p.h. in a test between Moscow and Leningrad...