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Last week Lysenko himself seemed on the way out. Pravda, speaking with the full authority of the Communist Party, told about a complicated squabble among Soviet scientists. It began when V. C. Dmitriev, an adherent of Lysenko, applied to the Institute of Genetics for a doctor's degree. Pravda printed a letter from a nonparty man, Professor S. Stankov, who testified that Dmitriev's doctoral dissertation was "unsound...
...have coasted home to a safe, slow finish, still a sure bet for the championship of championships, the Alpine Combination. But Stein, as usual, drove all the way; even a spill could not keep him from finishing fast, only 5.1 seconds behind the downhill winner, Austria's Christian Pravda...
...Word for It. Something, in fact, was happening to the cold war, but no one had yet found the right word or phrase for it. Some called it an easement, others, a thaw. Many, including Prime Minister Churchill and Pravda editorial writers, preferred to speak of "relaxation of tension." The Italians talked of distensionse. No phrase yet minted combines both the reality and the illusion of the moment: the reality of the new Russian regime's need to relax tension, and the Communists' manipulation of this need. Reality and illusion have a rendezvous date: Jan. 25 in Berlin...
...April: Pravda will announce that Vyaslav Molotov has been arrested as an "enemy of the state." Enthusiastic spontaneous demonstrations in the Kiev sector will follow. After a suitable period, Molotov will confess to having been in the pay of the German General Staff since he negotiated the non-aggression pact of 1939. He will admit having suggested the Marshall Plan and NATO to Western diplomats. The Chicago Tribune will comment on the fakery of the purge, right above an editorial in which Truman and Acheson are blamed for China's loss. Radcliffe's "Drumbeats and Song" will turn...
This somber announcement was greeted with what Pravda called "spontaneous demonstrations of the Russian workers and peasants." In Tiflis, capital of Beria's home state, "the entire Georgian people" was said to be condemning the traitor for "sowing poisonous seeds of distrust of our great brother Russian people...