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...Kremlin seems to agree, despite protests from old-line ideologues and planners. Last week Pravda blasted kopeck-pinching regulations that forbid any restaurant in Russia, from Moscow's vast Ukraina to the smallest cafe in Siberia, to spend more than $5.50 a day on soup greens. Urged Pravda: "Priority must be given to economic methods of management." The government now plans to do just that. Retail stores and restaurants in half a dozen Russian cities will be given a free hand to cut or increase sales staffs, improve displays and boost promotion budgets. "Advertising always pays," intoned Komsomolskaya Pravda...
...encourage warlike feelings among children. Pravda, on the other hand, called attention to unsold stocks of toys ($180 million worth in 1963), blamed central planners for misconstruing the public taste. "These monsters of plush, pâpier-maché, wood and stainless steel are costing the state a pretty kopeck," the paper warned...
Gold's unsettling whine had come from a tiny radio receiver hooked to his belt. Until he began wearing it, the Star's only general assignment night reporter had to call in to his paper every half hour. Now, when a story breaks, Night City Editor John Kopeck dials a seven-digit number on the phone, hears a recorded voice say: "Thank you. Your Bellboy party will be signaled." In a matter of seconds, Gold's midriff radio, dubbed Bellboy by its manufacturer, Western Electric, sounds off. Unless Gold stops it by pushing a button, it will...
...already in use-mainly by doctors. There are 1,500 receivers in Washington alone, but Walter Gold is the only Star reporter so equipped. Anyone within some 16 miles of him can dial his number -which is one reason why Gold keeps that number a secret between him arid Kopeck. Both men find it extremely useful. Not long ago, the Bellboy's shrill signal sent Reporter Gold to the nearest telephone for this command from Editor Kopeck: "When you come in, bring me a hot pastrami...
...advisory opinion by the World Court that delinquent nations should pony up their full share for all the U.N.'s activities, Russia has flatly refused to pay for the Congo operation. Said Gromyko: "Let no one entertain the belief that the Soviet Union will divert a single kopeck to aiding the colonialists to sanctify their criminal deeds" in the Congo...