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...without humor. "There are no funny stories about Gomulka," says Peasant Leader Stanislaw Banczyk. He is essentially a lonely man. He and his wife Zofia, a member of an old Russian Bolshevik family (purged by Stalin), live quietly in a tiny apartment in the Warsaw suburb of Praga, have no social life. A 26-year-old son, an engineer, lives in the same house. Gomulka's sole recreation: walking his dog around the block...
...spectacle. Over the Kremlin hang huge, glowing ruby stars, around" Izvestia's office the news headlines run in lights like those on the New York Times building in Times Square. There are plenty of taxicabs (all checker banded) to take the visitor to a restaurant-the Aragva, the Praga, the Peking, the New Yar-where he will probably hear American jazz badly played and pay possibly $20 for an indifferent meal, though the caviar, the tea and the ice cream will be excellent. But Moscow night life, except for a furtive prostitute outside the Moskva Hotel and, in almost...
...American gourmet who does manage a Moscow trip, Berman recommends the Praga Restaurant. A Russian friend took him to dinner there once, and it was quite a meal...
They ate from 3 p.m. until 8, running the gamut of caviar, vodka, and all the other traditional ingredients of Russian feasts. However, since the bill for two was 400 rubles ($100 at the inflated exchange rate). Berman strongly suggests that you visit the Praga only with a paying friend...
...Manifest & Open." In the Warsaw suburb of Praga, another election chairman told reporters, while the ballot box was still sealed, that 75% of the votes favored the Government bloc. He was not guessing; a neat variation on the secret ballot is to cast a vote "manifestly and openly" within clear sight of everyone at the polls. The P.P.R. (Communists) had formed its zealous members into trojki (trios) who had covered the country "inducing" voters to sign a pledge stating: "I commit myself to go to the elections and give my vote to the list of the [Government] bloc parties...