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...with "willfully" failing to register as an agent for Rafael Trujillo's Dominican Republic, cut a rueful figure in court as he pleaded nolo contendere and awaited the judge's sentencing. Short on money for a defense and hopeful of avoiding adverse publicity for his designer-brother Oleg, whom he now works for and lives with, the onetime jet-set traffic dispatcher seemed to have lost his soaring spirits. Says a friend: "His whole life has collapsed. He lost his column. He lost his business, and his wife's death left him with three children...
After every act, Oleg Popov, the famous clown, puts on his own show. Popov is very appealing, but I did not find him very humorous. Liston probably would not think much of Heifetz, either...
...these separate acts are interspersed and punctuated by the subdued gesturing of Oleg Popov, who is celebrated as one of the world's great clowns. A thoroughly trained circus performer, he can walk the tightwire or the slack wire; he is both animal trainer and juggler. He takes no pratfalls, and he is not the sad flopsy-mopsy fopsy that most U.S. clowns make themselves, but it is difficult to see why he is so renowned. Hailed as a star, he is really little more than a mildly engaging filler...
...National executives, who had grown gun-shy under terrible-tempered Ted Baker, found themselves with freely delegated authority. Maytag modernized National's fleet (now nine DC-8s, 17 Electras), eased the debt burden by arranging new financing, and prettied up the stewardesses with fuselage-hugging black sheaths by Oleg Cassini...
...were so many Red spies coming to light at once?* Whenever one great power has a big espionage roundup, as Russia did last May in the trial of Russian Scientist Oleg Penkovsky, who turned out to be a longtime Western agent, spies elsewhere brace themselves for a period of rough weather. Furthermore, there is a seasonal factor involved; summer is the traditional time to put the finger on spies. Around the end of June, many Communist "diplomats" prepare to go home for vacations and new instructions. Having had an eye on them already, the FBI then often decides to pounce...