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Margot Fonteyn, a little past her great ballerina days at 43, has found in Russian Dancer Rudolf Nureyev, 24, one of the most satisfactory partners of her career. They make quite a pair. Seventeen months have now passed since he defected in Paris from the Kirov Ballet company of Leningrad (TIME, June 23, 1961). Dancing with Fonteyn, Nureyev has gained in control and assurance without losing any of the instinctive stage sense that made him an immediate hit. Audiences seem absorbed with every movement of his small, compact body, every expression of his high-cheekboned face. When he has completed...
...didn't forsee any opposition," social committeeman James J. Gaffney '64 said. But when the House committee met Monday to ratify the social committee's dance plans, anti-mattress forces brought seventeen Quincy men to the meeting to oppose the plan...
Inside, a six-man combo warmed up the audience in the nearly full hall. Seventeen Harvard-style chairs lined the front of the stage, backed by about 80 more seats for the lesser wigs of the party...
...Kennedy has never held elective office in his life. He has refused to confront his two major opponents in open debate, apparently out of the well-found fear that he is no intellectual match for either of them. Out of seventeen opportunities since he was twenty-one, he has voted only four times in local, state, and national elections. He has made no record of accomplishment in any area of human endeavor to suggest that he is remotely qualified for the U. S. Senate. As Professor Mark DeWolfe Howe, an outspoken "New Frontier" advocate, said some months ago of Teddy...
...Seventeen (count 'em) ten-year-old girls circled the Radcliffe quad. In Whitman every single 'Cliffie said independently either "Isn't this lovely!" or "Isn't this great!" or "Isn't this wonderful...