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With broad sarcasm, Pravda Columnist S. Vishnevsky dismissed the budding U.S. atom-bomb shelter program. "If we could only open the eyes of those moles." he wrote recently, "they would surely see that there is no sense in hiding underground. But moles are unseeing creatures and moles of bourgeois origin suffer from class blindness." The sneer was less than convincing, for the writer must have known what most of the U.S. does not: the Soviet Union has been at work for more than a decade on a shelter program of its own, spending an estimated $500 million a year (current...
...Russia, no poet need starve if he can hack out odes extolling "socially useful" goals. In revolt against sloganeering paeans that read like Pravda set to rhyme, hundreds of Soviet writers privately turn out poems about lovemaking, maladjustment, and other concerns of the soul neglected by seven-year plans. They call such extracurricular outpourings "poetry for the desk drawer," because it is unproletarian and unpublishable. Yet one of the most revealing aspects of Russian evolution since Stalin has been the growth of the desk drawer...
...peace and good will. Such utterances are quite properly reported at length in the U.S., because what Russia's leader says at any moment is news, whether or not he says what he means or means what he says. By the same standard, it is my hope that Pravda and Izvestia will reprint this portrait of the President of the United States...
Russian readers must have been mystified-if not shocked-at seeing the sanity of their leader challenged in print-even by an outsider. Both Pravda and Izvestia prefaced the Wechsler columns with statements disavowing their contents ("This article is of definite interest, although the editors cannot agree with some of its propositions"). Nevertheless, they let Wechsler have his full say: "In the twilight of a gray afternoon, I sat with a man one year younger than myself whose decisions may be the final ones of our century. He is the son of a very wealthy man, and therefore the perfect...
...explosive area if Mr. Khrushchev is ready to negotiate rather than to dictate." This is not quite the image that John Kennedy has of himself-as he demonstrated in his speech before the U.N. General Assembly (see THE WORLD). Nor did the true Kennedy come off the presses of Pravda and Izvestia as faithfully as the Wechsler version. As printed in Moscow, President Kennedy's U.N. address was carefully shorn of reference to the resoluteness of the free world...