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...their assignment last week was not quite as predictable as covering an established beat, it did call for the shoe leather and craft that cubs learn early. Schecter visited the GUM store before Pat Nixon and noticed that one section was being prettied up by workers. He guessed that this was a department in which the First Lady was going to stop. When he returned later with Pat and her entourage, Schecter positioned himself at the pre-selected spot and was able to hold his vantage point. All three correspondents divided their time between the pomp and color...
Next stop was the state-run GUM department store, biggest in Moscow. Pat nibbled on a vanilla ice-cream cone, and bought scarves for "the girls." She had to keep calling for "my banker," an aide who bustled up with rubles. Asked how much she had spent, she replied with a laugh that she did not know. "Not much," offered Mrs. Gromyko, wife of the Soviet Foreign Minister. Pat walked across Red Square and posed for pictures in front of St. Basil's Cathedral. Asked if she had seen the President recently, she replied: "Listen, I haven...
...seat, a curtain rod or a soap dish. Today they are abundant and cheap. In a neighborhood store called "A Thousand Things," there are now a number of items that were not on sale even in late 1970: portable hair dryers, electric shavers and cans of spray paint. At GUM, the famous department store on Red Square, the selection of clothing has expanded, though the prices remain high. The store even stocks such exotic merchandise as $30 wigs, spear guns, flippers and skin-diving masks. GUM's hottest item: "Charm" hair spray, selling for one ruble ($1.46), per aerosol...
...flown to see an unmanned space shot at Baikonur in central Asia. More important, he will be accorded the privilege of making a short television address to the Soviet people. Pat Nixon will be the guest of Mrs. Brezhnev at tea and will visit Moscow University, the GUM department store, the Bolshoi ballet school and the Moscow circus, whose trained bears are likely to delight the First Lady as much as Peking's pandas did. The Nixons will fly to Leningrad for a day to visit the Summer Palace and the war cemetery of the victims of the city...
Counterpointing the realistic presentation of Ruby's fling with Earl Tibbits is the treatment of her niece Vivian, a self-contained, gum-chewing teenager, much closer to Nabokov's Lolita than was Sue Lyon, who played the part in Kubrick's movie. With no claims to any particular beauty or charm. Vivian succeeds--where Ruby doesn't--simply because she is young, because she doesn't care, because she regards adoration...