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...resthouse, Popovich said, "I must admit that it was more comfortable in space." Added Nikolayev with a grin: "Yes, fewer people and less noise." Khrushchev telephoned congratulations from his Black Sea vacation spot at Yalta, told Popovich that he had seen a picture of his bushily mustached father in Pravda. "Your father curls his mustaches like Taras Bulba," said Nikita. "What a Cossack! He seems to be saying, 'Give me a horse and saber...
Then one of Pkhaladze's students particularly disgraced himself by "debauchery" at Leningrad Pediatrics Institute, got questioned by suspicious officials, and spilled the beans. To the police, the parents of Pkhaladze's clients tearfully justified it, as Komsomolskaya Pravda put it, by "a passionate desire to have their children go to college, and by the poor preparation they received in high school." Last week Papa and five of his ghosts, having flunked a nasty courtroom exam, were enrolled in the pen for terms up to 15 years...
...only refusal came from the liberal Washington Post. President Philip Graham told the Soviet embassy that the Post would happily print the Khrushchev text in its news columns free if Pravda or Izvestia reciprocated by publishing the full text of President Kennedy's Sept. 25 speech to the United Nations, outlining the U.S. stand for realistically controlled and inspected disarmament. The Russians did not seem interested in the bargain...
...yourself movement stirred irate protests from Moscow, where Pravda accused West Berlin authorities of "openly inciting subversive actions against peace." In fact, the exodus has been stepped up by East Germany's increasingly desperate food shortage. Blaming the situation on its lack of export credits rather than the abysmal failure of its collectivized agriculture, the regime last week urged the people to start growing food in their own backyards. Whether for food or freedom, it looked as if more and more East Germans would be out digging this summer...
Four Pounds, Two Titles. Despite all this social activity, not to mention Rigoletto at the Bolshoi and a Russian circus, Salinger managed to squeeze in a little duty. He toured the Izvestia and Pravda plants, talked with newsmen in Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev-all off the record...