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...crack Russian Eight that was entered in the Henley Royal Regatta. "By gad," exploded Sir Geoffrey, "they're checking the course! These Russians! They are incredible-efficiency in the extreme." The Russian oarsmen are not only efficient, they are good. Included in the first Russian squad, Czarist or Soviet, ever sent to the 125-year-old Henley classic are the fine eight who were barely beaten by the great U.S. Navy crew in the 1952 Olympics. In a floodtide of entries from 30 countries, the Russians came to England the top-heavy favorites to take home the Henley...
Past Failure. In his 25 years of brutal collectivization and regimentation of the peasantry, Stalin failed to wrest enough food out of the Russian soil to feed his people; the output of some agricultural products (e.g., meat, milk, butter) fell below the 1916 levels of czarist days. Last September Nikita Khrushchev admitted the shortcomings of the Stalin program and announced a program of incentives to persuade the peasants to grow more. The Kremlin said consolingly that there was enough bread grain, but Khrushchev complained of severe shortages of livestock, vegetables (particularly potatoes), coarse grain and other fodder...
...Golden Echo is a "picture of a literary generation" as well as a self-portrait. But it is additionally a well-done picture of what it meant to grow up in a world where the ring of the doorbell might announce the arrival of anything from a female Czarist assassin to corpulent Hilaire Belloc. In those days, young Garnett had no intention of surprising the world, as he did in the '30s, with such out-of-the-ordinary novels as Lady into Fox, The Sailor's Return, Pocahontas. He did not even listen when George Bernard Shaw, watching...
...million tons of grain a year. The surplus was used up; even so, more than 5,000,000 Russians starved to death. Only last year Russia's Nikita Khrushchev confessed that 35 years of Communist dogma have produced great failures and that farm production is lower than in Czarist 1913. Yet in the face of that confessed failure, Peking has chosen to gamble on the old system for China...
...beauty home in his double-bass case and loses her. Eventually, the encased beauty is released in the midst of a musical soiree. In "Boa Constrictor and Rabbit," an expert tells how to seduce a married woman with patience, distance, praise and the inadvertent complicity of the husband. Czarist censors banned this story as immoral, which drove Chekhov to retort: "I have formed ... a Society for the Promotion of Cuckoldry, [and] have been elected president...