Word: pyotr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the last strains of the Pathétique, the festival is over. But the shade of Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky will not be satisfied until a healthy Suzanne Farrell dances Mozartiana again. -By Martha Duffy
...Europe's most ambitious nuclear program, has 16 reactors in operation, an extra 32 under construction and 13 more in planning. The Soviet Union currently generates 10% of its electricity from nuclear sources, and the present Five-Year Plan calls for construction of ten reactors a year. Pyotr Neporozhny, the Soviet Minister of Electric Power Development and Electrification, announced at the meeting that his country had recently made a major technical breakthrough toward nuclear fusion. If the Soviets could construct a successful nuclear fusion reactor, it would deliver about five to ten times the power of a now commonly...
...sleek Cuban boxing machine, Teofilo Stevenson, 29, won his third straight heavyweight boxing championship-although for the first time in his Olympic career, two opponents actually lasted the full three rounds. In the finals Pyotr Zayev, a stocky (5 ft. 10 in., 191 Ibs.) Soviet, even had the audacity to hit the towering (6 ft. 4 in., 220 Ibs.) Stevenson a few times before the inevitable loss...
...where it hurts most," says the University of South Carolina's Gordon Smith, who has written extensively on Soviet youth and criminal justice. At the root of the problem are such social ills as alcohol abuse, broken families, crowded living conditions-and boredom. "Drunkenness," says Police Lieut. General Pyotr Oleinik, "is the mother of hooliganism...
...their traditional debuts on the stage where they hope one day to reign as soloists. Bolshoi training-indeed, Soviet ballet training in general -imbues the students, from their first moments at the barre, with a deep sense of style and history. Says the Bolshoi Ballet's administrative director, Pyotr Khomutov: "When our classical heritage is made a part of the educational program, the students, afterward, can do anything. In the West, you seem to be anti-this and anti-that, as if such an approach were modern and novel. But anything new must be bolstered by a true knowledge...