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...Moscow last week, the newspaper Vechernyaya Moskva published an interim look at the work of the State Spelling Commission, which is preparing a new report on language reform to be issued next year. The major drive will be against useless double letters in Russian words; thus kommunist will become komunist, appetit, apetit, and so on. Of 1,200 Russian words containing double letters, only twelve will be retained. Among them: Russia and other proper names. The soft sign following sibilants at the end of words will disappear, as did the hard sign following consonants, and 16 rules of hyphenation...
...journalists plundered Macy's, came away with a trove of women's blouses, skirts, dresses and lipstick. Kraminov bought lipstick in nine different shades ("We have lipstick in Russia, but only one color"), and at a final dinner in honor of the visitors, Viktor Cheprakov of Kommunist magazine proposed an old Russian toast: "To my wife, my girl friend, and the girl I have not yet met-who is the most important. I have bought gifts for all three...
...longer-range problem was explaining how Khrushchev, the champion of coexistence, came to agree with the bellicose Chinese at last month's Communist summit conference. In a speech published in the theoretical magazine Kommunist, Khrushchev explained the nuances to loyal Moscow party organizers. The Communist revolution, said Khrushchev, is not in favor of big wars or "local wars" of the Suez type that might blaze up and get out of control; but Communism will encourage and support "without reservation" all "national liberation wars" that might hurt "capitalist imperialism." In other words, the Russians would go on subsidizing subversion...
...time when embarrassment is general among Party litterateurs because of the incorrigible Pasternak, the new book seems like the perfect tonic for the authorities. Pravda, Kommunist and other Russian periodicals have given it long, laudatory reviews; but more important, perhaps, the novel's overwhelming success will undoubtedly be taken as the people's mandate to chill the intellectual climate several degrees below freezing. Pasternak's case has already prompted the Kremlin to tighten the reins, not only in Russia, but throughout the Communist world...
...Yugoslavs, which contained 1) the suggestion that the military blocs of both East and West are responsible for current world tensions, and 2) the hint that the Soviet Union, rather than "international capitalism," represents a threat to the Independence of the smaller Communist nations. In Moscow the Soviet magazine Kommunist angrily demanded extensive changes...