Word: izvestia
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...getting on in years. It gets so frustrating, but then again I don't know what I could do if I gave up racing." Has Moss no Stirling virtues? "I appreciate beauty." One of Nikita Khrushchev's most enthusiastic eulogizers, the U.S.S.R.'s daily Izvestia, enterprisingly interviewed Red-prone Comedian Charlie Chaplin at his Swiss villa, where he has been in self-exile since 1952. Chaplin, 71, who met K. when the Soviet boss visited England in 1956, confided that he hopes to visit Russia some time this summer because "I have marveled at your grandiose experiment...
...almost effusive wire was less a tribute to Kennedy than a hint that Khrushchev was willing to bury his recent belligerence along with his scapegoat, Eisenhower. Izvestia called the election results a "terrible defeat" for the Eisenhower-Nixon policies of "worsening international tensions." A sharp dissenter in the Communist world: Red China, where the New China News Agency warned that while both candidates served "U.S. ruling circles," Kennedy would "greatly increase military spending and extend war preparations...
...that between Stalin's Russia and Tito's Yugoslavia in 1948. But last week, months after Nikita Khrushchev's first open split with Red China's leaders over basic Communist dogma, the battle was getting hotter-and the relationship colder-than ever. Moscow's Izvestia, scarcely veiling its Red Chinese target, railed against "leftists" and "phrase-mongers" who "assemble and sometimes distort quotations to repeat over and over again that imperialist wars are inevitable," adding that only "fools and dogmatists" could say (as the Chinese have been saying) that Russian advocacy of peaceful coexistence...
...usual, Moscow suppressed the news as long as it was suppressible. But after dust and sand began falling on Bulgaria, Rumania, and even Yugoslavia and Poland, Radio Moscow guardedly began reporting "dirty rain" around Kiev. Making the best of a bad situation, Izvestia described how 17 "heroic collective farm workers" had shoveled four feet of dust off a hog-farrowing shed near Krasnodar, then stayed around to play midwife to the sows...
...Academy, Archpriest Alexander Ossipov, as well as Archpriest Paul Darmansky, Father Nicolai Spassky, and "other servants of the Church" for having "publicly blasphemed the Name of God" and having "published against their church articles or pamphlets issued by newspapers and the atheist press in the U.S.S.R." (i.e., Pravda and Izvestia). The important point : although the Russian Orthodox Church often seems totally sub servient to the government, it now feels strong enough to excommunicate priests simply for preaching Communism...