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...government that had so long scorned Boris Pasternak, now gave grudgingly of its best to save him. An oxygen tent was rushed to rambling, weatherbeaten Dacha No. 6 in Peredelkino, 15 miles from Moscow. Professor Nikolai Petrov, a cancer specialist from the Kremlin clinic, strove desperately to win a few more hours from eternity with another blood transfusion. Pasternak asked wearily: "Is it necessary...
...working people the benefits socialism has always held out for them. In addition. Labor's brilliant but erratic leader, Herbert V. Evatt-onetime (1948) president of the U.N. General Assembly-also got himself mixed up in seeming sympathy with the Reds, during the defection of MVD Agent Vladimir Petrov from the Soviet embassy in Canberra (TIME, Sept. 27, 1954)-When Evatt insisted that only the "vilest liars'" could link him with Communists, a Menzies aide retorted: "Those who fly with the crows must expect to be shot...
Taking over the leadership in 1951 at the death of ex-Prime Minister Ben Chifley, Evatt was immediately caught up in a bitter sectarian fight between Communists and Catholic Actionists inside the labor movement. When the Soviet Embassy defector Vladimir Petrov named two Evatt secretaries as accomplices in espionage (they were later cleared), Evatt appeared as their lawyer, thereby alienating the immigrant vote (many are refugees from Communism). Turning on the Catholic Actionists, Evatt antagonized many of the Irish Catholics who traditionally vote Labor. Conservative Robert Menzies has won a decisive victory in the last three elections...
...students unanimously enjoy the school, as Petrov claims, it is a year-long pleasure. The school has its own fully stocked farm 20 miles away, where students camp every summer and learn agriculture while doing chores. More parents may find such attractions hard to resist; Petrov says that his waiting list is long. Most attractive of all is the tuition, scaled from $3 a month for low-income families to $50 for the wealthiest (average: $10). Even the top fee, which only four families pay. is well below the $80 a month that each student costs. For the school supplies...
...daily lapses: "Dust on the window ledge," or "Lint under Kolya's cot." The students get one day off a week (Sunday), and all must then clear the premises, visit relatives or friends. The reason (to prevent loneliness) illustrates the logic with which shrewd Principal Alexander Andreyevich Petrov runs the place. An able headmaster, Petrov is well paid; he and his teacher wife earn $300 monthly, a tidy income by Soviet standards. Petrov does not hold with physical punishment ("Rewards work better"). To encourage the emergence of "good qualities," he keeps a box for students to deposit notes (read...