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...hottest show in Paris last week played at neither Le Sexy nor at the uproarious Crazy Horse Saloon, but out at vintage Le Bourget Airport, where Charles Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis in 1927. It was the 26th biennial Paris Air Show, the world's biggest, and the heat was caused by the jockeying to win competitive honors. Nearly everyone who counts in world aviation was there, partly to impress potential customers and partly to size up rivals and their hardware. Serious buyers from more than 100 nations and squadrons of national officials, including 58 junketing...
...doors of the blue bus hissed open and 120 members of the Leningrad-Kirov Ballet filed into the waiting room at Paris' Le Bourget Airport. Once they were inside, one of the troupe's two "bodyguards" grimly stationed himself at the main exit. As he did, a young, sullen-faced dancer in an ill-fitting grey suit drifted away from the group. Then, suddenly hurrying his pace, he disappeared into the swarm of travelers. The second bodyguard gave chase, frantically pawed his way through the crowd until he found the dancer hiding behind a pillar...
When the Kirov made its debut in Paris in 1961, a Soviet plainclothesman tailed Nureyev wherever he went. And he went everywhere, touring the city with French friends he had met. This brought more scoldings from the Kirov management, but Nureyev persisted. Then, when the company arrived at Le Bourget that June morning to fly to London, Nureyev was informed that he was to go instead to Moscow to dance in the Kremlin, and could rejoin the tour later. "Dance in the Kremlin indeed," scoffs Nureyev in retrospect. "I knew this was a crisis. I was like a bird inside...
...stepped out of his capsule onto the deck of the Noa, Glenn was a marked man. His footprints on the deck were marked in white paint, to be appropriately preserved later on just as the touchdown spot of the Spirit of St. Louis was marked at Paris' Le Bourget Field. Glenn accepted his apotheosis as coolly as he had handled Friendship 7 on its flight through space. In the torrent of questions, he was articulate and at ease. There was honest pride in his great achievement, but Glenn went out of his way to acknowledge the roles of hundreds...
Just four days after his nimble-footed defection from Leningrad's Kirov Opera Ballet Company at Le Bourget Airport in Paris (TIME, June 23), Dancer Rudolf Nureev, 23, got a job with France's prestigious Marquis de Cuevas troupe. Starting salary of capitalism's newest convert: $6,000 a month...