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Pkhaladze-his ghosts fondly called him "Papa"-was so successful that soon he expanded to Leningrad's medical schools. He acquired a chauffeur-driven Volga limousine, dined regularly at Moscow's Aragvi Restaurant, where lavish tips earned him VIP treatment. He even treated himself to a vacation at Carlsbad in Czechoslovakia, where he posed as a movie producer...
Then one of Pkhaladze's students particularly disgraced himself by "debauchery" at Leningrad Pediatrics Institute, got questioned by suspicious officials, and spilled the beans. To the police, the parents of Pkhaladze's clients tearfully justified it, as Komsomolskaya Pravda put it, by "a passionate desire to have their children go to college, and by the poor preparation they received in high school." Last week Papa and five of his ghosts, having flunked a nasty courtroom exam, were enrolled in the pen for terms up to 15 years...
With an almost infinite variety of climate, peoples and living habits, the Soviet Union itself is a vast human laboratory for studying the many varieties of cancer, said Leningrad's Dr. A. V. Chaklin, one of 1,800 Russians who attended the Congress. He has headed expedition teams over a five-year period, covered the Soviet Union's 15 constituent republics and most of its 100 nationalities. Russian researchers simply move into the regular medical offices ("polyclinics) and require every patient, whether he has come in with a broken arm or athlete's foot, to submit...
...title of Dallas's program, "The Principles of American Freedom in Contrast to the Tyranny of Communism," we might come up with "The Principles of Russian Freedom in Contrast to the Tyranny of Capitalism," which is probably the title of the parallel course offered in Moscow or Leningrad...
...marketing and dealing in foreign currencies met stern punishment. Ringleader Mikhail Bursakov and four others were sentenced to death,* the remainder got prison terms ranging from five to 15 years. The doomed Bursakov was reported to have a criminal record dating back to 1935, when he was sentenced in Leningrad to three years for selling "shoes in short supply." In 1950, he drew a term of eight years for embezzlement after he had somehow become director of a state store. When arrested, Bursakov had 42 separate accounts in Soviet savings banks, with deposits totaling more than...