Word: leningrader
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remarkable fact of the latest Kremlin shakeup was that Khrushchev found it necessary to define Communism's goals in American terms-"initiative," "incentives," etc. He told a workers' mass meeting in Leningrad that Communists should "be able to solve the problem of catching up with the U.S.A.," that the Soviet people should have enough meat, butter, milk and fruit, and their shops should be filled with "everything that makes man's life more beautiful...
Before a gathering of Soviet agricultural workers and farm experts in Leningrad last week, Nikita Khrushchev, the busy boss of all the Russias, admitted that he could not do everything at once. "Even Chekhov's hero," said Nikita, "unscrewed only one nut before he started on another." But having only just started the huge job of decentralizing the whole of Soviet industry, Khrushchev was ready and willing to take on the biggest and balkiest of all Soviet troubles: the farm problem...
...that it would settle for one piece of sky at a time. Harold E. Stassen, the President's Disarmament Adviser, informally suggested to Russia's representative, Valerian Zorin, that the powers might begin by trying out aerial inspection in 1) a patch of Europe between Amsterdam and Leningrad, and 2) a North Pacific zone including most of Alaska and a small piece of Siberia. Last week Zorin formally proposed a larger European area, centered farther west so as to include southeast Britain, all France and Germany, all of the satellites-but practically none of Russia itself...
...Brzezinski, assistant professor of Government, plans a trip to Poland, his native country, where he will be especially interested in studying the political problems of the new Gomulka government. Brzezinski, who traveled in Soviet Russia last summer, advises students who may be going there this year to visit Leningrad and Tiflis, which he says are "freer and more open" than other Soviet cities...
...that as it may, Elvis Presley's records were reported to be the nonsocialist-realist craze in Leningrad and elsewhere. Disks, bootlegged from U.S. records and cut on discarded hospital X-ray plates, sell for 50 rubles...