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From an Eminence. Moscow's Pravda lost no time in proclaiming the Chancellor's action "involuntary," and the combination of abruptness, peevishness and pressure lent some color to the interpretation. Yet after the first public outcry that the West had lost one of its stoutest men at an awkward moment. Adenauer's decision began to appear a wise recognition that he was no longer indispensable. West Germany was no longer just one indomitable man but a strong and prosperous nation of 52 million people...
...Muscovites far beyond Sputnikville. Two years ago he eliminated scores of Moscow bureaus, ordered 60,000 employees, from charwomen to ranking executives, moved to regional councils thousands of miles away. Last week it developed that many upper-bracket wives had refused to join their husbands in the sticks. Komsomolskaya Pravda summoned seven such wives to its offices to find out why they were not with their husbands in provincial Sverdlovsk, in the Urals. First the women talked of Moscow's culture and comforts, but when assured that Sverdlovsk has culture, too, the most common excuse was: "My Mama...
...three-column editorial headed "The Perfidious Policy of Iran," Pravda roared that the Shah's "two-faced dealings" would earn him the same dark fate as Cuba's Batista and Iraq's late King Feisal. If the Shah needed any precedent for his maneuverings he could cite the way Molotov bargained for weeks with the British in 1939 and then confronted them with the secretly drawn Stalin-Hiuer pact...
...agree or support them." Such a qualified confession was not enough. Planning Chief Joseph Kuzmin got up to say that his predecessor had squandered such enormous sums on high-cost hydroelectric and chemical projects that Khrushchev himself had to interfere and set things right. Four days later, Pravda reported on a back page that appeals had been received against "decisions of expulsion from the party," suggesting that Khrushchev had earmarked his victims but had no current need of doing them...
...Ovation 1." Khrushchev raised laughter or cheers on schedule. In fact, reported Pravda, his closing speech drew even bigger cheers than his stem-winding keynoter. Pravda's box score: applause 14 times, stormy applause 20, stormy and prolonged applause 15, animation in the hall 11, laughter 3, ovation 1, everyone stands...