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Vladimir Vasiliev, 19, the youngest member of the Bolshoi company. A favorite trick: to bound straight off the stage, extend one leg, tuck the other under him and casually descend in perfect balance on one foot...
...languishing in sixth place in overall U.S. car sales. Last week "Bunky" Knudsen's hot-rodding Pontiac was at the top of the medium-price field, with 30% of that market; sales were up (117% in April, 60% for the year), and Pontiac was in a nip-and- tuck race with lower-priced Plymouth for third place in overall standings. On G.M.'s corporate-profit sheets, Pontiac stood second only to Chevrolet; around the G.M. building in Detroit there was quiet talk that Bunky Knudsen might well become G.M. president some day. From the start, Bill Knudsen insisted...
...according to anybody else connected with the show. And practically everybody gives the credit to the Oriental qualities of patience and politeness. Says Production Supervisor Jerry Whyte, a tough veteran of R. & H. shows since Oklahoma!: "I dread to think another show with two principals running nip and tuck like this one. But here you see no rivalry. They have a genuine friendship for each other...
...game began at a nip-and-tuck pace, each team exchanging baskets and intermittent foul shots, with the varsity quintet always managing to stay a few points ahead. The Crimson was operating as a unit--hitting frequently on set shots against Williams' early zone defense, rebounding well, playing a three-man press for the first few minutes, and using an effective zone of its own for the second time this season...
Grime Bomb. In Denver. Dr. James L. Tuck, thermonuclear research chief at Los Alamos. N. Mex.. caused much speculation by keeping an oddly bulging briefcase always at his side during a conference, later revealed that it contained part of his wife's vacuum cleaner, which she had asked him to have fixed in Denver...