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Last week, while still giving full credit to the Irish, the Soviet Russians did their best to make up for the oversight of their Czarist ancestors by putting, the first homemade Russian whisky on sale at Gastronom No. I, Moscow's leading grocery store. Sovetsky visky, which, according to New York Times Correspondent Harrison E. Salisbury, "smells like American rye and tastes like not a bad Irish," comes in two sizes: a handy half-liter flask and a large economy-size flagon. Price: 24.7 rubles ($6.17) a pint.* Says the leaflet which accompanies each bottle: "You can drink...
...cost the equivalent of $3 a dozen, a good pair of shoes is $75. a radio $200, oranges 55? each. Yet the mere fact that G.U.M. is opening fills many with wary hope. The site that the giant store occupies was once Upper Row, the biggest shopping center in Czarist Moscow. For 25 years it had served as a labyrinthine Soviet government office: now, by restoring it as a people's shopping center, the Kremlin appears to be giving substance to its impressive promises...
...eight years older than his boss and ally, Georgy Malenkov, but both men regard themselves as "second-generation Communists" - too young to have been bomb-throwers in Czarist days, but old enough to have been hardened on Stalin's anvil. Said a German Foreign Office man who met Khrushchev in Moscow: "He is one of the best examples of the young Bolshevik - like Malenkov a fat, brutal, intelligent fonctionnaire, a new type created by Stalin: undogmatic, unintellectual, but effective rulers...
...strike anywhere without fear of being contained by localized balance. An American trying to estimate the intentions or reactions of the Soviet state will tend to draw his information from the theory of Marxism and the actual record of Communism. A Briton will tend to emphasize the history of Czarist Russia and to look upon Communist imperialism as a projection of the ancient Russian pressure against Europe...
Russian-born Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky, the eminent early birdman and aircraft designer, has never forgotten a monumental nosebleed he suffered as a boy of ten in the Czarist city of Kiev. As he sat with cold compresses on his neck and waited miserably for his veins to close, he fell prey to an alarming thought: if his condition became chronic, he might never be able to become a flyer. One night a little later he dreamed of coursing the skies in the softly lit, walnut-paneled cabin of an enormous flying machine?a cabin he recognized with a start...