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...What can be done?" the Bureau Acts. "The Russians lean heavily on maternity benefits--through state creches for working mothers and state budget allowances--while Pravda constantly lauds extensive motherhood. We Americans, we hope, operate best through understanding and encouragement...
...fact that Averell Harriman lost his dog Fifi in Paris and asked the French police to help find her appeared to shock a Pravda reporter, who cabled home a disapproving story: "Harriman and his compatriots have taken over France to such a degree that they consider it completely normal to mobilize the Paris police for a week to search for a lost dachshund...
...spirit: "I guess she thinks you ought to be the way God made you. Anyway, I like it." Dave, who is a first-class skier but not in Andy's class, is also an unvexed admirer of his wife's prowess. Austria's Christian Pravda once tried to needle Dave: "How horrible to have a wife who can ski better!" Said Dave, equally deadpan: "She waits...
When it comes to criticizing Soviet bureaucracy, no Westerner can be so merciless as the Communists themselves. Last week Pravda took after O.K.B., the government's Experimental Design Bureau, which supplies industrial know-how not otherwise borrowed from the West. Samples...
...Pravda also peeked into the O.K.B. trade machinery division where "56 persons occupy themselves with pouring from one empty barrel into an empty pail and back again." This inspired Pravda to a new term for bureaucratic goldbricking: "Grinding water in a mortar...