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Things Like Culture. The Russians' visit was big news in English newspapers, which dubbed them The Volga Boatmen and gave them more space last week than was allotted to pronouncements of the Foreign Ministry. Interpreter Evgeniy Gippenreuter, a bushy-haired Muscovite, did most of the talking for the delegation and soon tired of one persistent line of questioning. "Food!" he barked at an inquisitive British sportswriter. "Always questions having to do with food. Why do you never ask about important things like culture, like museums, like art?" Exasperatedly he admitted that a cook was coming up from the Soviet...
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