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Within weeks of last June's Kremlin decree boosting the prices of meat and butter as much as 30%, a remarkable rumor filtered through the Iron Curtain: several hundred young Russian students and workers had been killed by police in the booming southern industrial city of Novocherkassk, near Rostov, in a wild night of rioting and pillaging touched off by the unexpected price increase...
...third term as auditor by a remarkable 700,000 votes in 1960. While Rhodes remained aloof from the state G.O.P. organization, he nursed his personal public relations, turned a room next to his private office into a statehouse reporters' lounge stocked with coffee, cheese and peanut-butter sandwiches...
...million last year) are almost eight times greater than a decade ago. Recently he was selected by Washington to sing the charms of the U.S. to prospective tourists from Britain, France and West Germany. "Every advertisement I write for the U.S. Travel Service," he muses, "is a bread-and-butter letter from a grateful immigrant...
...Pros. Mr. Smith is back in Washington, more or less. Lifting the title of the old Jimmy Stewart movie, NBC has turned Smith into a "dip me in butter and fry me for a catfish" type, giving the role to Fess Parker. It maybe-to borrow a line from its own dialogue-"in more hot water than a washcloth." Another old movie, Going My Way, is now a TV series (ABC), with Gene Kelly and Leo G. Carroll doing nicely as Father Bing Crosby and Father Barry Fitzgerald. In other seasons, a cassock opera like this one might have stood...
Unfortunately, too, the Hughes campaign has established a sort of Peacenik level of purity: to talk of disengagement or paramilitary initiatives shows more intellectual integrity (and respect for the voters' intelligence) than to talk of the arms economy in bread-and-butter terms...