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...Absolute nonsense!" That was Rudolf Nureyev's response to the rumor that Russian Ballerina Natalia Makarova, 29, who recently defected from the Leningrad Kirov Ballet, is replacing Dame Margot Fonteyn, 51, as his partner. As for Fonteyn, the prima ballerina sounded unconcerned about the possibility of his teaming up with Makarova. "Sometimes I dance with Nureyev and sometimes I don't," she said. "I dance with other partners, and so does he. I would very much like to see them dancing together some time...
Twas love and ambition, not politics, that prompted the current grand jete of defecting Soviet dancers. Natalia Makarova of the Kirov Ballet, according to rumor, managed to fall in love during the Kirov's London performance and may be offered a leading role in Rudolf Nureyev's new ballet...
Many of the thousands of tourists who crowd Yellowstone National Park each year come to see the black bears that panhandle along the roadsides. This summer a number of the bears are missing in action. Around some campfires, a dark conspiracy theory grew. Park rangers, said the rumor, were shooting down the bears because 1) the bears cause traffic jams, or 2) so many visitors bitten by the bears have been suing the National Park Service for damages-and winning...
Secretary of Interior Walter J. Hickel is sporting, of all things, a Spiro Agnew watch-and word spread that it was a gift from the White House. Last week, though, the outspoken former Alaska Governor spiked the rumor. "First of all," he said at a G.O.P. fund-raising dinner, "they wouldn't spend that much money on me; and secondly, they only give watches to people who are retiring. I am not about to retire...
...sooner does Aristotle Onassis lay one rift rumor to rest than he starts another. There was Jackie in New York, there was Ari in Athens, and there was Old Flame Maria Callas vacationing at the nearby isle of Tragonisi. One day Maria decided to throw a beach party. Ari dropped in by helicopter, greeted Maria with a kiss and picnicked away the golden hours with Maria and two other guests. Responding like a Dalmatian to the fire bell, Jackie flew back to Greece, to Onassis, to the yacht Christina, and to squelch rumors...