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...SECRET SPEECH, by John Robinson Beal (138 pp.; Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $3.50), is a satiric political fantasy that looks ahead to Khrushchev's overthrow, as explained by his imaginary successor, Comrade Dmitri Pushkov. (Khrushchev's fate is only hinted at: he becomes manager of the State Circus Trust.) Calmly, point by point-in a parody of Khrushchev's own speech in 1956 enumerating Stalin's errors-Pushkov proves to a Communist Party Congress that the man who once had only to pound on a U.N. desk with his shoe to frighten the world has really been...
...patched-up American team never was able to penetrate the defensive work of Soviet goalie Yurdy Pushkov. With the score 1 to 0, the Russians were able to successfully bottle up the U.S. in its own zone, while waiting for an opportunity to improve their lead...
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