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...least of the company's attractions is the passionately extroverted dancing of Flindt himself, who spells his strong roster of male soloists at least once a week. Trained at the Royal Ballet, Flindt twice left the company to roam the world, dancing with a wide variety of troupes, most recently the Paris Opera Ballet. Having brought all that he learned back home, Flindt now fills his hall for every new program. The venerable ballet of Denmark is clearly in the hands of a Royal flash...
...Butcher. No other problem plagues Indira so badly as the agitation for a nationwide ban on cattle slaughter. Revered by Hindus, some 175 million cattle roam the country, competing for India's limited food supply and finally being sent to "convalescent homes" to die. The country's meat-eating Moslems, on the other hand, slaughter some 1,000,000 cattle each year. Nehru had no patience with the wastefulness of the Hindu reverence for cows but never dared to thin out the uneconomic herds. Indira has also been ambivalent about the matter, and the sadhus (Hindu holy...
...goats roam where they may. After two millennia...
...hires more talent to file more stories. With Kay Graham's backing, he has raided other newspapers and magazines. His catch includes the New York Times's crack Political Reporter David S. Broder and the Saturday Evening Post's Stanley Karnow, whom Bradlee has sent to roam Southeast Asia. Nicholas von Hoffman was brought to town from the Chicago Daily News and now travels from one ghetto to the next to assess the miseries of slum life. Hired from the New Republic, Wolf von Eckardt provides some of the most perceptive daily-newspaper comment on city planning...
...lire coins commemorating the 700th anniversary of Dante's birth. Today the Dante coins have just about disappeared -except on the black market, where they bring as much as $4.80. For many Italian bank clerks, the first order of daily business is to roam the streets trying to scrounge coins from train stations and stores in return for bills; some banks are issuing 500-lire cashier's checks that pass from pocket to pocket as legal tender. Several big department stores offer scrip instead of change, and grocers often make change in the form of potatoes or pieces...