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...announced, the well-rehearsed plan for the special section went into operation. Senior Writer Roger Rosenblatt refined the introduction; Blake put final touches on the obituary and on an Andropov profile, then turned to the main news story; Staff Writer John Kohan, who once studied at the University of Leningrad, completed the story on the men Yuri Andropov must work with. In all, the 23-page finished product involved seven writers, 33 correspondents, eight reporter-researchers, much of TIME's layout and picture staff, and five editors. But despite all the precautions, nobody was fully prepared for the week...
...diplomats in Moscow, there is a ubiquitous Big Brother: the Administration for Services to the Diplomatic Corps (UPDK). A foreign service officer wants an apartment? The UPDK is the landlord. A junket to Leningrad? UPDK is the indifferent travel agency. The bureau also supplies nearly 100 workers to the U.S. embassy. Some of them, it is assumed, are Soviet intelligence agents...
...ballet lovers, all roads lead to Paris right now. The attraction is a rare, eight-week appearance by Leningrad's Kirov Ballet, considered the finest classical troupe in the world. No other company in this century has produced talent as profligately as the Kirov, and certainly no foreign company has had so strong an influence on American dance. Pavlova, whose ceaseless touring virtually introduced ballet to the U.S.; Balanchine, creator of many of this century's choreographic masterpieces; Nureyev and Makarova, who set new standards for classical style; Baryshnikov, who is probably the greatest male dancer since Nijinsky...
Vinogradov, 44, is now working on a ballet about the life of Charlie Chaplin. He intends to invite Maurice Béjart to stage it in Leningrad. The gossip is that Vinogradov was brought into the Kirov five years ago to liven things up and keep the younger generation of dancers interested. Vinogradov is a snappy dresser who likes wide pinstripes or a modified cowboy look. He seems to emerge from a Soviet equivalent of gilded youth, cosmopolitan, familiar with the latest trends in all the arts. His choreography is similar to that of several young Americans and Europeans...
...comforting, though, that Vinogradov has another invitation in mind, although there is no channel through which to send it. "My dream is that Balanchine would come back to Leningrad and do something with us," he says. "If only that were in the stars. Balanchine is one of the gods. After Petipa he is No. 2-among living choreographers, No. 1." If that assessment of the great classicists reflects Vinogradov's priorities, the Kirov is in safe hands. -By Martha Duffy