† EDGAR ANSTEY , documentary film producer and critic, recently paid another visit to the Soviet Union-this time to Central Asia
On top of a hill not far from Samarkand he saw a giant sextant which was built by Ulu Begh, Tamerlaine's grandson, fourteenth-century scientist, philosopher, and physician. It was the juxtaposition of this giant instrument and a new football stadium that particularly took his imagination.