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When Olga Korbut dazzled the world in Munich in 1972, and Nadia Comaneci followed with an enchanting performance in Montreal four years later, North Americans took notice...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Harvard Gymnastics Struggles Without Facilities and Coaching | 3/2/1979 | See Source »

Also seized were Nadia Mantovani, 26, a friend of imprisoned Red Brigades Founder Renato Curcio, and Lauro Azzolini, 35, who had been sought in connection with the murder of the president of the Turin bar association last year. There were unconfirmed rumors that Mario Moretti, 36, the top suspect in the Moro assassination, was also in police custody. To speed proceedings, all nine will stand summary trial within two weeks on charges of possessing arms and explosives-a protective measure to ensure that the defendants are not released while authorities ponder more serious charges against them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Terrorist Roundup | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

Looking for some "alternative avenue," he won a Fulbright scholarship to Paris to study with Nadia Boulanger, one of the most famous of modern composition teachers. On a vacation in North Africa, he first heard Eastern music. Says Glass: "I saw the repetitive element of non-Western music as another way of organizing music." He worked with Ravi Shankar on a film score, traveled through India and returned to New York in 1967, determined to create a new Western music built not upon melody but structure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: What's in a Melody? | 6/19/1978 | See Source »

Among other recent freelance porn offerings, Rome's station PTS (for People Television Service) put on a special called Nude on Parallel Bars, featuring a nearly naked girl giving a passable imitation of Olympic Star Nadia Comaneci. Telefantasy currently stars a 23-year-old student whose job is to writhe suggestively on a bed in a baby doll nightie while listening to a male voice on the radio reading excerpts from sex novels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Where Prime Time Is Porn Time | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

...around under fly balls for the New York Mets. There is a natural season, a range of ages, for athletes in most sports. Russia's Olga Korbut, a gold medal gymnast in 1972 at the age of 17, appeared sadly middle-aged four years later. Rumania's Nadia Comaneci, whose gymnastic performance at the 1976 Olympics received perfect scores, seemed almost hefty a year later. Swimmers age more quickly than moths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: To an Athlete Getting Old | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

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