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Stockings & Coal. Booster Zhukov had something to boast about. The Rus sian occupation was heavy-handed but effective. Results, to date...
...Stanford has announced a Pacific-Asiatic-Russian study program leading to a B.A. degree in the humanities. Students can major in 1) China, 2) Japan, 3) Rus sia, or 4) Southeast Asia and Pacific Islands...
...Soviet Information Bureau, member of the all-powerful Politburo, chief of the Red Army's political department, secretary of the Central Communist Party, and political boss of Moscow; of a heart ailment; in Moscow. Politico Shcherbakov's death, on the first day of European peace, was pronounced "Rus sia's greatest wartime casualty." Died. ThomasMontgomery Howell, 63, tiny, bigtime fisherman and Wall Street speculator ("the wizard of the grain pit"); of pneumonia; in Manhattan. In 1931, Iowa-born Trader Howell manipu lated a squeeze on the Chicago market, grabbed 70% of all visible corn, made himself...
Sirs: Apropos U.S.-Soviet relations, your readers might be interested in the following poem by A. P. Herbert, written in 1942, when the Russians were calling loudly for a second front. This would seem to show that the British can say what they think about Rus sia, without endangering international friend ship...
...outnumbered, outgunned and outflown. They fought on until winter brought a breathing spell. The Russians had landing gear which could be easily switched to skis, and they knew how to keep their engines and lubricants from freezing. The Germans did little about the winter except to complain. That year Rus sian winter grounded more of the Luftwaffe than Russian air action...