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...party boss. They are: Vladimir Shcherbitsky, 62, Dinmukhamed Kunayev, 68, and Arvid Pelshe, 81. Others, like Defense Minister Ustinov and Foreign Minister Gromyko, 70, and Party Ideologist Mikhail Suslov, 77, would appear to be disqualified because of their narrow specializations. The youngest member of the Politburo, Leningrad Party Boss Grigori Romanov, 57, may be a contender for power in a few years. For the time being, however, he has no political base in Moscow; citizens of the Soviet capital jokingly observe that even his surname, the same as the Russian imperial family's, works against...
Makarova grew up on this ballet in Leningrad, dancing in it at the Kirov. For American audiences she has rearranged the work, adding and deleting portions. Most of the time she manages to keep the story line in focus. She is clearly skilled at staging Russian classics, but it requires either a more imaginative choreographer or a tougher critical judgment to translate the work completely from a secure tradition to a new aesthetic setting. In the first act, an hour and ten minutes long, melodramatic mime sequences and decorative dancing compete for the viewer's attention...
When the Sivesk Tractor Engine Repair Plant on the outskirts of Leningrad was formally inaugurated last February, it was heralded by government economic planners as one of the Soviet Union's finest industrial achievements. N.V. Bosenko, chairman of the State Committee for Agricultural Technology of the Russian Republic, lavished praise on the executive responsible for the plant's construction. A year after the factory was officially in operation, Pravda called the plant "a thing of beauty, the largest in the industry, meeting the needs of all the collective and state farms of the Northwest." Raved the party newspaper...
After the fraud was exposed, by workers who tipped off state inspectors, some signers of the completion statement said that they had been pressured to do so. A Leningrad trade union official, N.S. Timoshin, said he knew construction had not been completed, "but the deputy chairman of the commission very much wanted me to sign the statement." Others claimed that their signatures had been forged. Fire Inspector A.V. Vakhi offered an impeccably logical explanation for why he signed the completion document: "Since there was no factory, there was nothing there that could catch fire...
...Chief," to "unclog the distribution system." Gleason promised no more than to discuss the request with his membership. But the Government itself is moving to cut down cultural exchanges; last week it made it known that it would cancel a Washington exhibition of artworks from the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad...