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Last year, we said there can be no more business as usual until the war ends. We closed down 169 universities and perhaps the swan boat concession in Boston Common October 15. But the force of the gesture was lost on the great majority of Washington policymakers...
Joffrey possesses a shrewd, show-bizzy instinct, not merely for what his dancers can manage but for what his audiences will swallow. So far he has avoided full-length ballets in the Russian tradition on the grounds that a Swan Lake or a Giselle would expose more of the company's faults than its virtues. Nonetheless, the question remains as to how long this promising fancy-free troupe can survive on nerve, verve and youthful fervor. When will it undertake major pieces that demand dramatic development rather than mere disciplined dazzle...
...wife of Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, it was horticulture, as she dutifully sniffed and stared at the wares in the late autumn show of the Royal Horticultural Society. For Ballerina Natalia Makarova, who defected a couple of months ago from Russia and the Kirov Ballet, it was the Black Swan pas de deux from Swan Lake, danced for the cameras of the BBC with her fellow defector Rudolf Nureyev-a star at the Kirov when she was in the corps de ballet. "Who would have believed we would ever dance together again?" breathed Natalia. "An absolutely exquisite dancer," raved Nuri...
Discrepancies. It may be that Swan acted to save a weak case. His lead-off witness, former Radioman Charles Sledge, was the most damaging to Mitchell. Only Sledge, 23, black and a luggage-factory worker from Sardis, Miss., would say that he "positively" saw Mitchell shoot a group of Vietnamese women, children and old men cowering in a ditch. Sledge said that he recalled seeing Mitchell confer with Lieut. William Calley Jr. at the edge of the ditch before the two opened fire on the villagers from about five or six feet away. "They were falling and screaming," he testified...
Without witnesses to verify Sledge's testimony, Prosecutor Swan may indeed have found it expedient to rest his case quickly. At least, Army lawyers at the Pentagon think so. They point out that the charge against Mitchell is "assault with intent to murder." Says one Army officer: "All Swan has to prove is that Mitchell pulled the trigger and that there were people in the trench, and he's done that already. Why should he go on and confuse the point with fragmentary evidence? Besides, he has those extra seven witnesses in reserve for rebuttal...