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...about to go on tour with the American Ballet Theater. To the rescue flew the Ballet Theater Foundation with a lawsuit, and State Supreme Court Judge George Carney with a court order. "She can break down the door if necessary," he said. She didn't have to. A pas de quatre with a happy ending for the heroine...
...Brazil, a country with a military government that knows exactly how free the press should be, nine cartoonists and editors of the satirical weekly O Pas-quim ("The Rag"), have all been in prison for over a month. Uncharged. The tabloid has gone on publishing, blandly stating on its front page that it has been "completely automated." Last week Brazilian police tired of the joke, suspended "The Rag," then lifted the ban without explanation. The staffers remain in jail; "The Rag" remains "automated...
...Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, it was horticulture, as she dutifully sniffed and stared at the wares in the late autumn show of the Royal Horticultural Society. For Ballerina Natalia Makarova, who defected a couple of months ago from Russia and the Kirov Ballet, it was the Black Swan pas de deux from Swan Lake, danced for the cameras of the BBC with her fellow defector Rudolf Nureyev-a star at the Kirov when she was in the corps de ballet. "Who would have believed we would ever dance together again?" breathed Natalia. "An absolutely exquisite dancer," raved Nuri...
...President's faux pas came in the middle of another attack on his frequent foe, the press. Nixon had just come from a ten-day working holiday in San Clemente, where he found himself angered by the coverage given the Manson case in the local media. Many of the young, Nixon said in Denver, "tend to glorify and to make heroes out of those who engage in criminal activities." Was it the fault of the press? Yes and no, said Nixon. Yes: "It is done perhaps because people want to read or see that kind of story." No: "This...
...pas,t year Bickel, 45, has shuttled regularly to Washington to testify on subjects ranging from electoral-college reform to presidential war powers...