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...with Japanese firms, many of which have Moscow branch offices. (So far no U.S. manufacturer has a Moscow office, though the recent overall trade agreement provides for reciprocal office space in Moscow and Washington.) Atlantic Richfield took on Japan's Kawasaki Heavy Industries as a partner in the Leningrad deal...
...against eleven firms from Japan, Europe and the U.S., he had just sealed one of the biggest deals with the Soviet Union since the two nations began doing more business with each other in May: a $16 million agreement for the design and initial operation of a plant near Leningrad that will make chemicals for Russian synthetic fibers. "The best advice that I can give Americans hoping to do business in the Soviet Union is to be patient," said Verdol. He should know. Before leaving Moscow two weeks ago, he had spent five of the previous seven months there...
...works. Ten years ago, in his only previous visit to the U.S.S.R. in half a century, Balanchine and the members of his New York City Ballet sent shock waves of excitement through the Soviet dance world. Now they were back for a five-week tour of Kiev, Leningrad, Tbilisi, Moscow, Lodz and Warsaw. Everywhere the S.R.O. sign...
...Goldberg Variations (Bach), dances that eschew decor, spectacle and story line in favor of balanced and unbalanced compositions that are mod, sexy and athletic. The results were varied. The Georgians in their sunny Italianate capital, Tbilisi, responded more enthusiastically to those works than ballet-goers in Kiev and Leningrad. But more traditional Balanchine ballets like Symphony in C (Bizet) caught on at every stop. Balanchine's Who Cares? (Gershwin) was a steady crowd pleaser, though in Tbilisi and Moscow a stomach bug swept the company's ranks, forced last-minute cast changes, and prompted one dancer...
Even the ragged corps work did not bother the Tbilisians, who were out to welcome their second most famous native son (after Stalin). Though born in Leningrad (in 1904), Balanchine comes from Georgian stock. Among those on hand to greet him was his brother Andrei Balanchivadze, 66, a prominent if somewhat outdated composer, a three-year-old grandnephew, also named Andrei, and scores of other Georgians claiming kinship and free tickets...