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Only those who were inside know exactly what testy Coach Hector ("Toe") Blake, 55, said when he barred the doors of the last-place Montreal Canadiens' dressing room Christmas night. But whatever Toe said, his words worked. The Canadiens won 30 of their remaining 41 games and skated away with the National Hockey League's East Division championship. They then wiped out the Boston Bruins (4 games to 0), the Chicago Black Hawks (4-1), and finally the West Division's St. Louis Blues (4-0) to win their eighth Stanley Cup in 13 years...
...Presidium. As reassurance to Czechoslovakia's writers and intellectuals, whose clamor for change led to his takeover, Dubček has approved publication of a new liberal journal entitled Literární Listy. Last week he fired the man who was widely despised for making writers toe the party line, Jiři Hendrych, 55. Replacing Hendrych as Party Secretary for Ideology, Dubček appointed Josef Spaček, 41, who immediately announced that the party "cannot set the tasks...
...broken toe sidelined Vanessa Redgrave for three weeks from the filming of her movie about Isadora Duncan, but that was no reason to drop out of character. While recuperating, Vanessa accepted an invitation to make her singing debut on French television. Critics raved about her voice, but it was her appearance that dazzled most people. Barefoot and as Duncanesque as ever, she looked like a flowing fountain of purple and mauve chiffon-and only the stagehands could see that her hands were trembling with nervousness through the whole ordeal...
Dance has also arrived in suburbia, where leotards and toe shoes are beginning to replace the piano as a culture symbol. Manhattan has 70 dance schools, greater Washington, D.C., has 60. Says one Manhattan teacher, surveying the proliferating schools: "They're like bookies -there's one in every basement." Each September, when Balanchine's School of American Ballet holds auditions, the line of hopefuls stretches around the block. The few who are accepted are properly proud and even a little haughty. Says Nanette Glushak, 17, of Manhattan: "We saw a movie of Pav lova the other...
...Feet in Toe Shoes. One nagging problem is, as always, money. Despite growing national interest, most of the 40 or 50 professional companies in the U.S. are direly pressed to meet their weekly expenses of $10,000 to $100,000. Production costs are prohibitive; the American Ballet Theater, which carries 58 dancers, plus 38 musicians and technicians on tour, plays to packed houses but still loses $10,000 every week it sets its feet on stage. Just to keep those feet in Capezio toe shoes ($9 a pair) costs $1,000 a week...