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...Nikita Khrushchev peered across the Great Kremlin Hall and spied the millennium. "In the immediate future," he declared to the Supreme Soviet, "we shall reach the production and consumption level of the United States, the wealthiest country of the capitalist world. Then we shall enter the open sea in which no comparisons with capitalism will anchor...
...well as other synthetics, Khrushchev said that, with help, Russia by 1971 would have a chemical industry comparable to any that Western countries have taken decades to build. Said he: "It would be stupid to ignore the achievements of foreign science only because they were made in a capitalist country. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin did not consider it a shame to learn from the capitalists...
Russia's East European satellites, also adjusting to an economic slowdown, are increasingly asserting their own national identities and seeking warmer relations with the West. Soviet Russia, after all the years of proud self-sufficiency, now faces the humiliation of having to buy its food from the capitalist rival. Moscow's hopeful plan is to spend up to $10 billion for Western chemical plants in the next few years...
...Soviets add that during their stay "the young people of both countries did not always find a common language. This is understandable. Soviet youth has no illusions about the inhuman capitalist system...
...Billy's main escape is the life of his imagination, the land of Ambrosia--a fanciful municipality which he liberates and defends. In his humdrum real world, Billy is office boy and small time wheeler dealer. In Ambrosia he is Army General and poet laureate, capitalist-magnate, dictator, and idol of millions. His face beams down on cheering throngs from billboards and placards. Everywhere he is trailed by admiring troops and adoring women. Yet Ambrosia is only the infantile country of William Steig's "Dreams of Glory." Clearly, Billy's imagination has been spoon-fed and molded from childhood...