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...supermarkets' expansion in the U.S., and record crops this year are expected to fatten food supplies. As a result, almost all existing stores should increase their sales and profits. "Anybody with a piece of sense should be able to make money," says Analyst Camilla Dietz of Furman Selz Mager Dietz & Birney Inc. That seems to be the view of A. & P. management too. Since last spring, top executives and directors of the firm have been quietly increasing their holdings of the company's stock...
...Kolenkhov is a natural scene-stealer. He pronounces "The Monte Carlo Ballet" with just the right Bela Lugosi intonation, he talks and gestures like a proud Rasputin fallen on bad times, and his Romanov leer is so hilariously Russian that one can smell the caviar in the pit. George Mager's classic internal revenue agent scene is a stunning shtic planted in the first act. And Suzanne Sato's wonderful costumes are more convincing than those in any other period piece I've seen...
...fair in ideological warfare, I suppose, and that after all is the primary business of Mager and Katel. For contrary to appearances, theirs is not a scholarly book. To be sure, the book has a certain air of dispassionateness, thanks to its anthology form; we are to hear Khrushchev speak for himself. At the same time the commentary maintains an impression of scholarly research by expropriating recently published charts and opinions; it even feigns moderation by slipping from time to time into the academic pitter-patter of Harvard's own Russian Research Center. But let there be no mistake...
...mention adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions) there emerges a Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev who considers himself the most powerful man on earth. ... He makes no secret of his desire to rule the world. ... Conquest is the central theme of all he says, the objective of everything he does." Thus, Mager and Katel. For lack of subtlety in thought and expression they can't be beat...
...editors also take high honors for distortion. As if the power of paste and scissors were not enough to make Khrushchev say what they want, Mager and Katel put words into his mouth. At one point, for example, they present the following statement in the Roman type reserved for the words of Khrushchev: "Since the world-wide triumph of 'socialism' would mean that the Soviet Union would become the dominant world power, there is no conflict between Soviet national power considerations and the Marxist-Leninist view of the progress of social transformation of the world...