Word: moskva
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...Moscow nowadays, there is good eating for high Bolsheviks, bureaucrats and army & navy brass. Grandest restaurant is the Hotel Moskva's (see cut); it gets out-of-season cucumbers from Stalin's own hothouses. Not quite as good, but better-known to Americans, is the dining room of the Metropole. Then there are the smaller, more intimate restaurants, chic and very expensive, with cuisines deriving from Russia's exotic outlands...
...Leningrad and Moscow and is still at work on a coaxial cable to link them up with Kiev, and Sverdlovsk in the Urals. Russians seem to have reached the second phase in television: they are beginning to complain about it. In a recent letter to the newspaper Vechernyaya Moskva, carping Reader Vladimir Savochkin demanded more TV sets, more and better programs, spare parts for fans who are building their own sets...
Murder of the Cathedral. Muscovites were likely to control their emotion. They could remember Moscow's first attempt to build a skyscraper, the Palace of Soviets, which was to be the world's biggest and grandest edifice. "The monument will be erected on a square [near] the Moskva River embankment," stated the plan, sponsored by Molotov. "The said square will be enlarged by tearing down the Cathedral of Christ the Redeemer...
That Dearest Man. Pressagenting a plan for the erection of eight new Moscow skyscrapers (16 to 32 stories), Vechernyaya Moskva predicted that Moscow's skyline of the future will be festive and eye-pleasing, not at all like its American counterpart-not a sway or a crack in a block. Russian architects will avoid the "errors" of U.S. builders-the Soviet skyscrapers will not yield to the wind, but will stand "unshaken and firm...
Vechernyaya Moskva ecstatically visualized the future: "Here we are in the vestibule of a new hotel. We enter a gallery and see Moscow. How it has changed! . . . It seems that all Moscow-graceful, light, majestic and solemn, rises over the world, gleaming with the inviting light of ruby stars. Great emotion floods the heart -emotion of great pride for the Motherland, for the Soviet people, for the creative labor inspired by the genius of that greatest and dearest man, Comrade Stalin...