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Last week Pravda announced that things have not turned out quite that...
...months that had only four or five days off, industry has tended to adopt a new creak-and-crash cycle under the five-day week, holding to the old pace at the first part of a month, then trying desperately to catch up to quotas toward the end. Pravda cited a Tomsk factory that now turns out some 60 fans a day during the first week of the month, then heats up to 200 or more in the last - with a corresponding drop in quality. In the last-minute dither to meet quotas, workers may lose their extra day altogether...
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...Noting that their father had been killed in a Stalinist purge in the 1930s, they said that they could not accept a return to that "terrible time of lawlessness and bestiality." Evgeny Kushev, one of those who took the stand at the trial, complained in a letter about Komsomolskaya Pravda's distortions of his testimony. Writer Ginzburg's mother has threatened a libel suit against that newspaper for describing her son as a "paid agent" of a foreign organization-a charge never made at the trial...
...December issue of the journal Novy Mir as a test of the regime's avowed good intentions. But Solzhenitsyn, author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, last summer denounced censorship in a widely circulated letter and recently was attacked by the editor of Pravda as a "psychologically unbalanced person, a schizophrenic...