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Nowadays Evtushenko reads nothing in public. He was recently spotted in a Moscow gastronom buying vodka while his wife Galina pleaded: "You've had too much. It's bad for you. Come home." But drunk or sober, Evtushenko has yet to recant the verse that could well be his epitaph...
Moscow University's 15 Americans live in comfortable, two-room dormitory suites, which the ten married men share with their wives (children are not invited). The wives cook in community kitchens or on hot plates in their rooms, divide their time between shopping in the university gastronom and swapping language lessons with Russians. Bachelors live with Russians, Africans or students from Soviet satellites. All clean their own rooms and perform communal chores, such as K.P. and phone duty, assigned by the floor starosta, an elected "elder," or monitor, common to Russian group living...
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...
Sausages and Airplanes. Without official reminders, Russian pilots know when it is U.S. planes they are flying, soldiers when it is U.S. shoes they wear, housewives when they use U.S. flour, sugar, lard and canned meats. New York Times Correspondent Ralph Parker went to a Moscow "gastronom" where the grocer told him: "Of course, we have had the American goods here. Not a lot; I should say about 10% of the total over six months...