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...Intourist itineraries, ranging from five to 23 days. The main travel circuit includes Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Tbilisi (the Eastern-flavored capital of Soviet Georgia), and the seaside resorts of the Black Sea (Sochi, Sukhumi, Yalta). More adventurous tourists can go to Riga, capital of Latvia; Irkutsk, the burgeoning capital of eastern Siberia; or far east to Tashkent and Alma-Ata. Intourist will also permit tourists to hunt in the Crimean game preserves, once reserved for Soviet V.I.P.s...
Mystery Man Guterma, 43, claims to have been born in Irkutsk, Siberia, though he speaks like a native New Yorker. His story is that he went to the Philippines in 1938 by way of China, managed to escape a World War II Japanese concentration camp. The war over, Guterma flowered as a trader, also obtained a bankroll from Philippine and Italian businessmen, which he brought to Florida in 1950 to start a project growing flaxlike ramie fiber. He then moved to Manhattan and with a partner opened McGrath Securities, a firm that often floated stock in his new companies...
Aeroflot has some impressive new models for the job. It has started to fly Tupolev's new four-jet, 500-10-600 m.p.h. TU-110s the 2,700 miles from Moscow to Irkutsk, may put the plane on longer runs to replace the TU-IO4. For ranges up to 3,000 miles, Aeroflot has shown off prototypes of two 400-m.p.h., four-engined turboprops - Ilyushin's 100-passenger IL-18 Moskva and Antonov's 126-passenger Ukraina-that resemble Lockheed's Electra, now being test-flown. Aeroflot's highest hopes for capturing a large chunk...
...Looking in the other direction, lively little Alaska Airlines applied to CAB for permission to fly from Alaska to Irkutsk, Siberia...
Such weapons might not be far to seek. Early harvests in the newly opened wheat fields of Kazakhstan were so poor that they threatened to make a fiasco of the "virgin lands" program that Khrushchev had rammed through almost singlehanded. From the far-off industrial zones around Irkutsk and Alma-Ata came reports that Khrushchev's decentralization of industry (TIME, April 15) had created such confusion that some factories had shut down completely for want of supplies. Stalin had committed far worse blunders and survived. But Khrushchev, as yet, was no Stalin. Where Stalin, because of his absolute command...