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...rubber-stamp ranch-house community of Levittown, Pa. (pop. 60,000), the vacant house at 30 Darkleaf Lane last week came alive with a distinction all its own. From one roof peak flew an American flag, and from another-spotlighted by night-the stars and bars of the Confederacy. Each evening the house of the Confederacy was crowded with the members of the newly formed Dogwood Hollow Social Club who worked hard at a hard-boiled bad-neighbor policy. With windows wide open they chattered loudly over coffee, volumed up a phonograph, harmonized on Old Black Joe, aiming all this...
...joint session of the Supreme Soviet (Russia's rubber-stamp legislature), Economic Boss Mikhail Pervukhin admitted that scores of economic targets set for 1956 had not been achieved. Then Pervukhin made, for a Soviet leader, a surprising statement: instead of scolding the workers, he blamed the Piatiletka planners. They had placed too much emphasis on oversized industrial complexes, particularly in the coal, steel and chemical industries. Pervukhin promised that industrial targets for 1957 would be lowered by nearly 4% on previous planning, with continued emphasis on heavy industry. More important than the substance of Pervukhin's announcement...
Deficiencies. Though meetings of the Supreme Soviet usually dully rubber-stamp economic plans and decrees, February is becoming a newsworthy month in Communist Russia. It was at a February Supreme Soviet meeting two years ago that Georgy Malenkov confessed to mismanagement, and dramatically resigned his premiership. It was also in February, one year ago at the 20th Party Congress, that Khrushchev opened the Pandora's box of Stalin's crimes...
...Kirchentag's second day were broken up into six themes, but by far the biggest drawing card was "People and Politics." Bonn government officials were on hand to listen, and from East Germany came Deputy Premier Otto Nuschke and President Johannes Dieckmann of the East zone's rubber-stamp parliament. While Nuschke fidgeted and nervously massaged his nose, a crowd of 12,000 heard Evangelical Leader Günter Jacob of Cottbus, East Germany describe the sinister magnetism the totalitarian state exerts upon man. Applause had been discouraged by Kirchentag officials, but again and again the crowd broke...
Last week a two-paragraph item in Pravda reported that Lazar Moiseevich Kaganovich, at his own request, had resigned his post as labor boss of Russia. His successor is Alexander Petrovich Volkov, chairman of the rubber-stamp Council of the Union, and a man so little known that the latest edition of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia does not even list...