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...showy smelter to refine its tin ore, the U.S. showed its cards by lending Bolivia $10 million to revamp the nationalized tin mines, which account for 67% of the impoverished nation's export income. Last week the Communists dealt off another, even bigger offer. In La Paz, Nicolai Rodionov, Soviet bureaucrat, announced that Russia would bid not only the smelter but also a $150 million low-interest, long-term loan for Russian technical aid to Bolivia's government-owned petroleum and tin corporations. Russia might also buy, all of Bolivia's high-cost tin ore, currently...
...willingness to use it -than most Westerners realize. The latest issue of the Journal of the Moscow Pa triarchate carries the terse announcement that the Holy Synod has excommunicated a prominent professor of theology at Leningrad Theological Academy, Archpriest Alexander Ossipov, as well as Archpriest Paul Darmansky, Father Nicolai Spassky, and "other servants of the Church" for having "publicly blasphemed the Name of God" and having "published against their church articles or pamphlets issued by newspapers and the atheist press in the U.S.S.R." (i.e., Pravda and Izvestia). The important point : although the Russian Orthodox Church often seems totally sub servient...
Lucine Amara, Tenor Nicolai Gedda, Basso Jerome Hines in a program of classical music. Color...
...dancing, though, is what matters, and it is magnificent. Maya Plisetskaya, the public favorite among Russia's younger ballerinas, dances the double role of Odette-Odile with a mixture of faultless precision, lyric grace and sheer animal power; Nicolai Fadeyechev as the Prince and Vladimir Levashev as the Evil Spirit are virile, commanding performers. On the other hand, the ballet itself is simply an arrant Arcadian anachronism, and Tchaikovsky's music, except for a few eddies of glorious melody, fills Swan Lake with sugar water. But along with all its faults, the picture provides U.S. ballet-goers...
...home quite late." "Ludmilla and Serge are in love and want to get married, but they must wait at least two years for an apartment. Elina has a lecherous boss. Igor hates his mother-in-law." At divorce hearings in Moscow's city court, "the next case was Nicolai Petrovitch against Valentina Petrovitch. Nicolai spoke for about ten minutes, describing Valentina as a lazy, no-good wife who neither kept house nor worked at a steady job. He said her mother interfered constantly...