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TOMORROW CITY BUS AND TRAM LINES WILL BE STRUCK FROM 9 TO 11 AND FROM 3 TO 5. The strike, led by a Communist-controlled union, occurred as predicted, to no one's surprise. For, as the biggest (est. circ. 500,000) and most powerful Communist newspaper published in the free world, L'Unità not only reports the news but makes it as well...
Last fall Paris' big (est. circ. 400,000), right-wing L'Aurore charged that L'Humanité, whose circulation has dropped from 600,000 to 172,000 in the last seven years, "would long ago be dead if [it had not received] subsidies from abroad." L'Humanité replied with a libel suit against L'Aurore, demanded 1,000,000 francs damages. In court, witness after witness backed up L'Aurore's charges of support from Russia. Among them...
...with your request we are sending you a copy of our winter schedule of programs beamed to North America. If you have any questions about life in the Soviet Union, please let us know. We reply to listeners' questions every Saturday and Sunday in Moscow Mailbag at 9 p.m. EST. We also invite your music requests. Wishing you good listening. Sincerely yours, Radio Moscow I. Petrov, Letters Dept...
...partially paralyzed by a birth injury, he was found abandoned in a third-class railway coach in Lucknow. Doctors at the hospital where he was taken discovered he had two sets of upper incisors, hastily jumped to a series of unwarranted, nonmedical conclusions. The English-language Lucknow National Herald (est. circ. 10,000) heard about it, carried the first story reporting that the boy "seems to have been taken away to the jungle by jackals when just a small child." A Reuters correspondent at New Delhi, 300 miles away, long-distanced the hospital, put the story on its world wire...
...popping up in towns and villages all over European Russia to pump oldsters' hands and wave at the muzhiks from his train. His puppets in satellite Hungary have revived old-style coffee shops, which under Stalin were banned as "reactionary," and let American jazz (Blue Tango, C'est Si Bon) push Russian classical music off the radio...