Word: leningraders
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...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...
...disguise his subject as a bather or a physical-culture enthusiast. Last week a young Soviet art student named Ilya Glazunov finally dared break the rule, showed a nude girl (modeled by his wife) lolling in bed while her lover gazes out of the window over the city of Leningrad. The result sent the whole Soviet art world into a tizzy and crowds swarming to the Moscow gallery to see his work. At the gallery Glazunov has already collected three volumes of scribbled comment (ranging from "Lecher!" to "Hurrah for Glazunov!"). Trend to date: two-to-one in favor...
...from the U.S. embassy in Moscow. Last week it followed this up by demanding the withdrawal of two U.S. assistant naval attaches. To substantiate its clumsy charge that the naval aides were spies, the MVD had arranged for them to be assaulted by a civilian mob in an open Leningrad street, under pretense that they had been caught red-handed in subversive activity against the Soviet regime...
...pooled them to form Moscow's famed Museum of Modern Western Art. Used as tourist bait for years, the museum was closed during World War II by Stalin, who liked his artists regimented and realist. Only in the post-Stalin years have the paintings begun to reappear in Leningrad's Hermitage and Moscow's Pushkin Museums...