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Chain-smoking Russian Pamir filter cigarettes, he threw a candlelight dinner for correspondents of the Daily Express, at which he blithely denounced such Western institutions as "the expense-account lunch and the English Channel" He poured vodka, wine and brandy at the Minsk Hotel and "a number of restaurants" for a visiting science correspondent from London's Sunday Times. And, most satisfying of all, Moscow's own Izvestia ran a frontpage interview with him appropriately titled: "Hello, Comrade Philby...
...ever touched has turned to gold. Oswald's Russian-born widow, 25, now married to Texas Saloonkeeper Kenneth Porter, is suing the U.S. Government for $500,000 in payment for Lee's confiscated personal effects-a treasure trove including old Christmas cards, Russian maps of Moscow and Minsk, his Marine Corps discharge and an Oct. 20, 1963 copy of the Worker that Marina thinks collectors would dearly love to own. Assistant U.S. Attorney Kenneth Mighell conceded that Marina "definitely will receive compensation" for the mordant memorabilia. "The question," he added, "is how much...
COLISEUM (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Part 2 of "Moscow State Circus," taped in Minsk, with Dinah Shore as hostess. The seven acts include the famed Dudykchau Teeterboard Tumblers, the Potchernikova Bears, the Berikovi Aerial Rockets...
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...
...American Government? any American." At one point, when the Russian government was threatening to kick Oswald out of the country, he slashed a wrist in an abortive suicide attempt. The Soviet government purportedly took pity, allowed Oswald to stay on, got him a job as a metal worker in Minsk, where he met and married Marina Prusakova, then a 19-year-old pharmacist...