For two weeks Moscow's world-famed Bolshoi Theater Balletscheduled to make its first full-scale appearance outside the Soviet Unionhad kept London's ballet fans on tenterhooks. Eighty tons of scenery already rested on a London dock when balletomanes heard that the company would not come unless British authorities dropped charges against Nina Ponomaryeva, the husky discus thrower who is charged with shoplifting (TIME, Sept. 10); the authorities stood pat. When the Russians decided to come anyway, the three jet airliners carrying the troupe found the London airport weathered in, had to land miles away at...
Music: Bolshoi Ballet Abroad
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