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...Dame Margot Fonteyn is indisputably a prima ballerina assoluta. The Stuttgart Ballet now ranks among Europe's best dance companies. Its director and chief choreographer, John Cranko, is possibly the reigning master of story ballet. Put them all together and what do you get? What you get, sad to say, is a campy, overripe, overdecorated disaster called Poème de I'Extase, which was given its American première last week at the Metropolitan Opera House...
Shortly after the war, Honecker married Edith Baumann, an old-line Communist official, three years his senior. In 1953, he divorced her and took as his wife Margot Feist, then 20, a beautiful and talented youth leader from Halle. Appointed Minister of Education in 1963, she helped turn East Germany's schools into model institutions; many West Germans readily concede that education is one area where the Communist half of Germany has outperformed their own part of the country. There is talk that she may be elevated to the Politburo when the Party Congress meets in June, and even...
...Soviets, who maintain 20 combat-ready divisions in East Germany. The Russians, in fact, call him "nash chelovyek" (our man). Honecker's only known diversion is hunting, which he does alone. He lives outside Berlin in a villa in the heavily guarded government complex at Wandlitz with Margot and their teen-age son. A Communist diplomat who has visited the Honecker home describes it as "spotless, functional, unimaginative and stiff-just like Honecker...
...think has sex appeal? asked London's Sunday Times Magazine, as it began a daisy chain of nominations with Supermodel Jean Shrimpton, 27. She picked Architect Buckminster Fuller, 75 ("I particularly like his geodesic domes"). Fuller picked Ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn, 51 ("I have been unable to divest myself of an awareness-not induced by others -that she is of the opposite sex"). And so on, to Rockster Mick Jagger, 27, and his surprise choice: Actor-Author Noel Coward, 71 (no reason given). Coward, too, had a bit of a surprise for his friends. "I should have liked...
...collected so far represents contributions from 20 per cent of the class. The solicitation committee, headed by Margot R. Hornblower '71, Radcliffe class treasurer, decided to ask for cash gifts-unlike Harvard, which takes pledges over a three-year period...