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...citizens. Only 9.5 percent of the school children chose "heroes of the workers' movement" as their ideal. Interestingly, the results of a poll in Poland conducted among students at the Cracow Metallurgy and Mining Academy showed a majority choosing John F. Kennedy as their idol. He was followed by Yuri Garagin, De Gaulle, Pope John XXIII, and then Karl Marx...
...Yuri Vladimirov, with his unruly shock of hair and the untamed passion of his dancing, is reminiscent of Rudolf Nureyev. In The Flames of Paris last week, he burst across the stage with a round of incredibly high, twisting jumps, whirled whippet-quick through half a dozen spinning leaps in which his body seemed almost parallel to the stage, then snapped into a one-knee landing that left the audience gasping. Though the lyrical side of his artistry is still maturing, the solid, long-limbed Vladimirov exhibits an aerial freedom and heroic virility that few male dancers can match...
Lest all the adulation turn their heads, Bolshoi Choreographer Yuri Grigorovich is carefully guarding the careers of his two prize youngsters. Says he: "Yuri and Natalia are still developing, still rounding off the angles. At this stage, it is difficult to see them clearly, but one thing is certain: there is no ceiling in sight...
...Soviet space program, who evaluated the pioneering tests performed on Soviet dogs Belka and Strelka during 1960's Sputnik V flight, urged that the biological aspects of manned space flights "be attacked with vigor," and since then had a major hand in every flight involving living creatures, from Yuri Gagarin in 1961 to last month's launching of two dogs in still-orbiting Cosmos 110; of undisclosed causes; reportedly in Tyuratam, U.S.S.R...
Anyway, Guiness supposes that this peasant girl is really the long-lost daughter of deceased poet Yuri Zhivago and his mistress, Lara. To confirm this judgment, he flips open a volume of Zhivago's poetry, revealing pictures of both the poet and his mistress--Omar Sharif and Julie Christie...