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Belyayev, 39, and the oldest cosmonaut who has yet flown in space, was born in the Vologda region east of Leningrad. As a child he skied three miles to school and tried at 16 to join the ski troops in the war with Nazi Germany...
...these splendors just gild what was already there. Even within a single gallery, the Met is worth a thousand and one days of exploration. Only the Louvre and Leningrad's Hermitage, among museums outside of Holland, rival the Met's Rembrandts. Hanging in honeycomb luminosity are 33 of the Dutch master's softest illusions, from his early white-ruffed burghers to intense portraits of his mistress Hendlrickje Stoeffels to his jeweled Old Testament parables and his bravura Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer, the costliest work of art ($2,300,000) ever auctioned...
...TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "The Siege of Leningrad," an Iliad of a struggle in which the Russian city held out for 2½ years (August 1941 to January 1944) against German encirclement total except for one tenuous ice road across frozen Lake Ladoga...
Last week, hailing "this new form of planning" as "profitable for industry and the population," Moscow announced that it already had approved the conversion to Libermanism of nearly 400 consumer-goods factories from Moscow and Leningrad to Minsk and Kazakhstan. Trade ministries have until Jan. 31 to draw up a list of retail outlets authorized to place orders directly to the factories. Factory managers in turn will be given the authority to set production schedules based on retail-store orders, and to determine the size and wages of the work force needed to fill them at a profit...
Whether the newspaper outcries will be followed up by bolder moves toward decentralized planning remains to be seen. Less easily remedied, though, would be another complaint aired in Komsomolskaya Pravda. Writing from Leningrad, an engineer identified as L. Svetlanov heretically demanded the utmost in decentralization: individual freedom and "live spontaneity" in daily life. Deploring the "rehearsed informality" of Soviet society, Svetlanov described a typical "poetry night" in a Moscow cafe. "After the poets are through reciting," he wrote, "they sit at a separate table and talk animatedly among themselves. A couple of autograph hunters approach timidly. The jazz band plays...