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...practical workings of the "friendly neighbor" relationship were illustrated this week when the Polish government announced that Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossovsky had been released from the Soviet Army to become Polish Defense Minister and "Marshal of the Polish Armies." The Poles, citing "the Polish national origin of Rokossovsky," said they had petitioned the Kremlin for his services...
...repertory group because so many of the smaller parts can prove to be gems when given the attention of first-class actors. In the present production, Peter Temple as the schoolmaster, Semyon, Donald Stevens as Sorin, and Jeanne Tufts as Polina are cases in point. Bryant Haliday as Konstantin, shows much improvement over his past tendency toward staginess and oratory and gives his best performance to date. Jan Farrand is ill-cast as the faded actress, Madame Arkadina. Despite all the trickery of the theater, Miss Farrand cannot look faded. And as the physical appearance of the actress playing...
...Konstantin Berman, one of Moscow's favorite clowns, did his best to remedy the lack. He strutted into the ring dressed in mauve zoot-suit jacket and pinstripe trousers. "I will now demonstrate the Marshall Plan," said Berman, holding up a boomerang. The boomerang, he explained, was the dollar. When he threw it in the air, the missile split and two dollar-boomerangs returned to his hands. The crowd roared out its applause...
Last week Presiding Judge Konstantin Undzhiev pronounced sentence. Because of the "pastors' honest and sincere confessions," said Undzhiev, he had waived the death penalty. The four principal defendants-the heads of Bulgaria's Congregational, Baptist, Methodist and Pentecostal churches-got life imprisonment; nine of their associates drew prison terms ranging from five to 15 years, and two got off with suspended sentences...
What goes on inside? Probably no one outside of the Politburo could tell the whole story, but the Russian writer Konstantin Zhikharev, ex-Red army major, has sketched in the outline in the new Russian-language Paris periodical, Narodnaya Pravda (The People's Truth). "The EKU," writes Zhikharev, "is divided into two main sections which direct political control of the whole domestic economy, and economic espionage throughout the world." The first maintains a secret police network covering all Russian economic enterprises, keeps all production statistics (which are state secrets), and administers forced labor. But the activities...