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...Molotov (meaning The Hammer). In a letter to Kommunist, top party organ of the Central Committee, First Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Molotov, who got into the movement in 1906 at the age of 16, admitted that at the ripe, Red age of 64 he had committed a "theoretically mistaken and politically harmful" blunder by understating the extent of Socialist success in Soviet Russia...
...foundation of a Socialist society has already been built, there are people's democratic countries which have so far taken only the first, though very important, step towards Socialism." Molotov's error lay in the use of one word: foundation. Said he in his confession: "This mistaken for mulation leads to the incorrect conclusion that allegedly a Socialist society has not yet been created in the Soviet Union; [this] . . . does not correspond to reality and contradicts the numerous estimates of the result of the construction of Socialism in the U.S.S.R. given in party documents...
When he walked to the rostrum, in well-tailored, single-breasted navy blue, he could have been mistaken for a shrewd bank president or a shy professor...
...Mistaken Identity...
Dave Beck, the ruddy-faced president of the A.F.L. Teamster Union, could easily be mistaken for a millionaire. Teamster Beck has several personal business interests on the side: he owns large chunks of Seattle real estate; he is board chairman of Kellerblock Corp., which owns Seattle's 18-story Grosvenor House apartments, and, until recently, he operated Northwest Securities Corp., an auto finance company. His family has interests in other enterprises, including beer and beverage distributorships. Last week it appeared that Beck put over one of his best business deals at the union's expense...