Word: misha
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...show was the brainchild of an Eliot House junior, John Misha Petkevich, and with the help of the Jimmy Fund and Eliot House, it has become a major event in the national skating picture and in Jimmy Fund fundraising...
Unlike samizdat, which is forbidden, magnitizdat has not been declared illegal. "So far as we know, no one has yet been arrested for composing, performing, taping or playing the tapes in Russia," says Misha Allen, an emigre from Russia living in Toronto who has collected more than 700 modern Soviet songs. "Probably the state regards the songs as a safety valve for the rebellious. Besides, many are patriotic." Still, as Allen points out, the Soviet authorities are not exactly delighted about the trend. Recently, tapes acquired in Russia by a few Western tourists have been seized by Soviet customs...
When John Misha Petkevich conective in the National Figure Skating Championships in Tulsa. Oklahoma, last month, he surprised the judges and spectators there by skating to "On the Waterfront" by Leonard Bernstein...
Employing a much faster, more daring style than he has in the past. John Misha Petkevitch '71 captured second place for the second straight year in the U.S. Figure Skating Championships last weekend in Tulsa, Okla...