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Among the nine other national pavilions, the $3 million, 62,000-sq.-ft. Soviet building is the most popular. The building is a visual delight, from the entrance, prefaced by pools, fountains and water plants, to a riverfront restaurant, supervised by a chef who presides over the best chicken Kiev this side of Leningrad. It has huge, non-Stakhanovite art montages, three movie theaters, an exhibition of Armenian archaeological artifacts and, in keeping with Expo's theme, ingenious models of air-and water-purification systems...
...remember when] Mao Tse-tung was in Moscow for Stalin's 70th birthday on Dec. 21, 1949. I came up from Kiev and ran into a secretary of the Moscow District party...
Although she has lived in Palestine and Israel for more than 53 years, Mrs. Meir still speaks Hebrew with a distinctive Middle American accent. She was born Goldie Mabovitch in Kiev-her earliest memories, she told Pope Paul at the Vatican, were of pogroms-and immigrated to the U.S. at eight with her family. In Milwaukee, her home for nearly 15 years, she became Goldie Myerson...
...traitor." Only twelve hours after Solzhenitsyn's deportation had been announced on Moscow Radio, Izvestia was able to print a letter purportedly from a reader in Baku, although mail usually takes ten days to reach Moscow from there. Other minor miracles were performed by letter writers from Minsk and Kiev: their messages of approval were also received several days ahead of schedule. Such transparently clumsy tactics were added evidence that the Kremlin had long prepared the action against Solzhenitsyn...
...Kiev, a psychiatrist at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, thinks that The Exorcist somehow unveils the innermost unexpressed concerns of many people. "It acknowledges the presence of evil; if people are attracted to this film, then that is what is in their subconscious. Then again, many patients see themselves as the devil...