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...gets the prize for unusual choices. In 1968 the magazine recruited Playwright Jean Genet, Novelist William Burroughs, Satirist Terry Southern and Poet Allen Ginsberg. This time the Esquire group is to include Guenrikh Borovik, 43, former U.S. correspondent for the Soviet news agency Novosti and writer for Izvestia and Pravda. He will team with Jack Chen, 63, a Eurasian who travels on a Trinidad passport and wrote for Peking Review and People's Daily while living in mainland China from 1950 until last year. To round out this summer's roster, Esquire will have the services of Novelist...
Ritual Words. As important, in a way, as the agreements was the atmosphere of the summit. The Russians were determined to be good-humored and to keep their guests in good spirits as well. Nixon's picture appeared every day on page 1 of Pravda, and unlike the usual Soviet caricature of the President, he looked pleasant...
...Slovak nationalism ahead of his allegiance to Communism. Ever since he succeeded Dubček in 1969, he has persistently claimed that he would not tolerate political trials. Apparently he has been under pressure from the Russians to crack down on would-be reformers; last month, an editorial in Pravda warned of the "mortal danger" of "counterrevolution in Czechoslovakia...
...Viet Cong official insisted that the secret talks had been kept private only "at the imperious demand of Mr. Kissinger," yet also assailed Nixon for a lack of "credibility" in disclosing their substance. The Communists refrained from outright rejection of the Nixon plan, however, and a Hanoi correspondent for Pravda reported that it was being "attentively analyzed" in North Viet...
...resurfaced. Alexei Stakhanov became Stalin's original "shock worker" by producing 102 tons of coal in a six-hour shift-eleven times the norm. Soviet officials then used the high output of dedicated "Stakhanovites" as a pretext to raise production quotas for everyone. Now 66, Stakhanov told Pravda that there was too much emphasis on production statistics, "machines, automation, percentages and tons." When it came time to praise the workers, he said, he had seen party officials giving out awards while sneaking glances at their wristwatches. "Praise should not be routine," declared Comrade Stakhanov. "It should come from...