Word: ponomaryeva
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Time was when Russia's light-fingered lady discus thrower, Nina Ponomaryeva, could lift a couple of hats from a London department store (TIME, Sept. 10, 1956) and rate hardly a slap on the wrist from her commissar chaperons. Nina was needed for the Olympics. But the party line has changed. Last week Czechoslovakia's table-tennis champion, Ivan Andreadis, was "temporarily disqualified" from the national team for "unsporting behavior." His bourgeois crime: Ivan "forgot" to report a large hunk of his earnings...
...Theater Ballet-scheduled to make its first full-scale appearance outside the Soviet Union-had kept London's ballet fans on tenterhooks. Eighty tons of scenery already rested on a London dock when balletomanes heard that the company would not come unless British authorities dropped charges against Nina Ponomaryeva, the husky discus thrower who is charged with shoplifting (TIME, Sept. 10); the authorities stood pat. When the Russians decided to come anyway, the three jet airliners carrying the troupe found the London airport weathered in, had to land miles away at a U.S. fighter base in Mansion, Kent...
Shopping meant bargain hunting, for the visitors had only ?5 (about $14) pocket money apiece. Discus Thrower Nina Ponomaryeva, 27, a Russian gold-medal winner at the 1952 Olympics, cased the shop windows along Oxford Street with an eager eye, for Nina always tried to make the most of her bulky (185 Ibs.) charms. Like her movie namesake, Ninotchka, she was fascinated by bourgeois hats. The cut-rate merchandise at C. & A. Modes, Ltd. seemed just what she wanted: among the 305. felt flowerpots, the cheap berets, the fluffy wool stocking caps there must be a creation that would...
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