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...since 1948. Expectations for the visit ran very high. The company's school is considered one of the world's best, a preserver of both the French and Italian technique and dance vocabulary. The institution itself has an ineffable aura of glamour, and in three years as dance director, Rudolf Nureyev has earned a reputation for leading it energetically...
...part of a ten-day France Salutes New York festival, the Paris Opera Ballet, making its first U.S. visit in 38 years, shared a stage with the American Ballet Theatre before a benefit audience brimming with celebrities, including Nancy Reagan. One highlight of the festivities was provided by Rudolf Nureyev, 48, the Paris troupe's artistic director, and Mikhail Baryshnikov, 38, his counterpart at A.B.T. The two Soviet-exile superstars joined French-born Actress Leslie Caron in a nostalgic recreation of dances from her movie musicals. The evening's host was another symbol of Franco-American cooperation, Gene Kelly...
More than 5.4 million voters were eligible, and turnout was nearly 90 percent. The winner succeeds Rudolf Kirchschlaeger, who is stepping down at the end of two six-year terms as prescribed...
...evening began with a lavish, four-hour variety show, complete with glittery set, tuxedoed host and a parade of guest stars. Singer Charles Aznavour cut a ribbon to mark the occasion, and Rudolf Nureyev, Sting and ABC Newsman Peter Jennings were among the celebrities who sent greetings from abroad. Then it was on to regular programming: an onslaught of game shows, movies and weekly series, interrupted regularly by -- mon Dieu! -- commercials...
...here, on Feb. 10, 1962, that the downed American U-2 pilot, Francis Gary Powers, walked past Soviet Superspy Rudolf Abel while heading west across the bridge. In June 1985, 25 Western agents were traded here for four East bloc spies imprisoned in the U.S. Ever since rumors began circulating early this month that Shcharansky might soon be included in such a prisoner exchange, it was assumed that the famed Soviet dissident would take the same route to the West. But there were endless snags. Among the most controversial: even though Shcharansky was convicted in the Soviet Union on trumped...