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...ballet before her first Giselle last November. At the highly conservative Bolshoi, even this long tour is hardly a complete apprenticeship, and Lavrovsky is sternly resisting the demand for her dancing by allowing her only one or two performances a month. Battling off other Bolshoi ballet masters who plead for her presence, he says: "I don't want them destroying at night what I teach...
...While boasting of its progress and virtue," said King, "Atlanta has allowed itself to fall behind almost every other Southern city in progress toward desegregation." His intent, he said, was not "to embarrass our city, but to call Atlanta back to something noble and plead with her to rise from dark yesterdays of racial injustice to bright tomorrows of justice for all. We must honestly say to Atlanta that time is running out. If some concrete changes for good are not made soon, Negro leaders of Atlanta will find it impossible to convince the masses of Negroes of the good...
...more Irish temper. To begin with, Dunne felt ill at ease writing about himself without Mr. Dooley as a shield: "Disrobing in public is not to my taste. There are intellectual and spiritual pudenda as well as physical. The more clothes I put on, the better I look. I plead guilty to preferring port and Montaigne to gin and Joyce or creme de cacao and André Gide...
...Dallas to defend Jack Ruby, the only man ever to commit a murder while the whole nation watched. Now, whether or not Judge Joe Brantley Brown decides to let live TV turn the trial into a flamboyant show, a flamboyant courtroom drama is already a certainty. "We will plead him not guilty by reason of insanity," announced Belli after a two-hour interview with his newest client. "We will have some of the greatest names in psychiatry in the U.S. as witnesses. My eyes were moist when he recounted what he went through...
...Guinea (pop. 3,300,000), once one of French West Africa's richest countries, after five years of independence has become one of the poorest. This week, a mission headed by Economic Development Minister Ismael Toure, Sékou's halfbrother, is due in Washington, expected to plead with the Administration to double the $15 million in aid that the U.S. has funneled into Guinea this year...