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Because they live with the constant threat of expulsion for the slightest offenses-real or imagined-Western correspondents stationed in Moscow tend to turn out supercautious, colorless copy. Not CBS's Hughes Rudd. With characteristic zest, he breaks the general journalistic rule, and for some reason he is allowed to stay on. Ever since he arrived in Russia in February 1965, Rudd has twitted his hosts in sardonic, deadpan style. If the censor notices, he is obviously not annoyed; he either likes Rudd's jokes or he misses the point...
Either way, the dark, scowling observer goes unhindered about his offbeat reporting. He consciously avoids the stereotype of the foreign correspondent who deals only with high officials and sees himself as a minister without portfolio. Rudd concentrates on ordinary matters: synagogues and supermarkets, the horseradish gap, and the maiden voyage of the new luxury liner Alexander Pushkin. "The Russians say the ship is sailing almost empty because she has not been advertised in the Soviet Union," he said about the Pushkin, "but the fact is it's impossible for all but a handful of Russians to leave the country...
Last week Rudd reported that "the Soviets are seriously worried about getting young people to become salesclerks, of all things. In the old revolutionary days, such jobs were considered part of the bourgeoisie's diabolical oppression of the working class. But the party has found out that clerks are necessary after all-especially honest clerks-and an honest clerk in the Soviet Union is hard to find...
...recent telecast, Rudd described in deadly detail a Soviet sports-instructors' course, "which lasts some four years and involves 4,000 hours of class' room study. The curriculum is one which might well strike an American gym teacher as impossible if not insane. The students are required to take the following courses: the history of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; the philosophy of Marx and Lenin; Marxist political economy; the fundamentals of scientific Communism; a foreign language; biochemistry; anatomy, including the dissection of cadavers; the history of pedagogics; the theory of physical culture; the organization...
...Broadway PETERPAT, by Enid Rudd. In olden days, man fought Tyrannosaurus rex; nowadays he battles Tyrannosaurus regina-his wife...