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...delightfully quaint pay phone boxes, a blend of "flash" American, polished Continental and robust old English influence that mixes and merges in London today. The result is a sparkling, slapdash comedy not unlike those directed for the screen by Britain's own Tony (Tom Jones) Richardson or Czech Emigre Karel (Morgan!) Reisz, and filmed by Director Richard (Help!) Lester, a fugitive from Philadelphia, who uses the sudden stills and the hurry-up time that he learned filming advertising commercials...
...many of the 6,000 comrades who swarmed into Moscow last week for the 23rd Communist Party Congress, getting there was hardly fun. The Rumanian delegation, led by Nicolae Ceausescu (TIME cover, March 18), was forced to land in Kiev; Czech Party Boss Antonin Novotny had to wait 16 hours in Leningrad for the Moscow fog to lift. Once they arrived, the delegates wandered the city like conventioners anywhere, clicking pictures of the Spassky Gate, shopping at GUM, or lining up to peek at Lenin, whose tomb was banked in flowers and bedecked with signs reading "Glory to Communism." Others...
Utter Pessimism. In part, the answer is that many Eastern European students are bored with propaganda, restricted literature and limited travel. "We are young and cannot always think only of building socialism," says a Rumanian youth. "It is a fact," says a Czech student, "that the only attractive currents for our generation are coming from the Western part of the world. Here they tell us we are a new generation building a new world; then they insist we dance a folk dance two centuries old." As a consequence, Eastern European girls prefer the watusi, the jerk, and big-beat music...
...best jobs for party favorites. "They encourage us to study engineering and medicine," complains a young Pole, "and then they expect us to join a farming community and to make less money as a doctor than a common laborer. I didn't study ten years for that." A Czech student complained that university graduates are being "offered jobs as night watchmen-we have the best-educated night watchmen in the world...
Facing the Beatles. Czech universities recently injected a bit of democracy into their academic bureaucracy by permitting faculty members to elect their principals and deans. Students are being offered an "advisory" role in shaping university policy. At the lower-school level, teachers have had difficulty interesting teen-agers in a "civics" course. One headmaster, Vladimir Rerucha, complained over Radio Prague that "it is really not so easy to face a 15-year-old wearing a checked jacket and a big red badge inscribed 'The Beatles' and talk to him about Communist ethics...