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Across the snowdrifted steppes of Soviet Russia last week slogged hundreds of thousands of peasants to attend party-organized "discussion" meetings about Nikita Khrushchev's latest decision: to abolish the tractor stations. Speaking last month to farm officials in Minsk, the First Party Secretary announced that the Machine Tractor Stations had outlived their usefulness as originally constituted, and that henceforth the collectives may buy and operate their own machinery. "Where there are two masters on the land, there can be no good order," he thundered. "The tractor station sows no flax but is supplied with flax machines. It plants...
...Soviet Union's top tippler, Nikita Khrushchev, has turned upon one of his closest friends, John Barleycorn, according to Pravda. In Minsk for a pep talk to collective farmers, Khrushchev warmed to his subject by calling for a crackdown on moonshiners: "He who makes home brew, he who gives drink to the people, acts against the interests of the state, against society, and deserves punishment!" This brought him around to his distaste for "wet propaganda" in films and plays. Said Nikita soberly: "I have seen a film, Before It Is Too Late, made by the Lithuanian film studio...
Diplomats called him "the oldest young man in the world" because of his cold, deadpan expression. Born near Minsk in the village of Gromyki (90% of whose inhabitants are called Gromyko), he started out as a teacher and never lost his pedantry. Molotov plucked him out of the Academy of Sciences in 1939, and his fortunes have paralleled those of his master. He was at Molotov's elbow at Teheran, Yalta and Potsdam...
Like.Marjorie, Wouk was born in The Bronx, the son of Abraham Isaac and Esther Levine Wouk. Both parents came from Minsk, Russia. Papa Wouk started washing clothes in a basement, rose to be president of one of New York's largest power laundries. One of Herman's earliest memories is playing hide and seek among the machines. The Wouk family was "restless, like most New Yorkers," and while Herman was still a child, made four moves, from one canyonlike apartment house to another, all within what Wouk calls "that romantic, and much overcriticized borough," The Bronx...
...arms up in a gesture which seemed to say, 'Here I am, you lucky people.' As Tito, enormously dignified, walked up the red ceremonial carpet to meet him, Khrushchev happily skipped down the plane ramp, looking for all the world like a samovar salesman arriving at Minsk for the annual convention. He was all smiles and handshakes and pats on the back, and seemed to do a happy little dance. Beaming, Khrushchev said to Tito: 'Everything's going to be all right...