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...Khrushchev's loaded terms. In his speech, before bemedaled female Heroes of Socialist Labor, youthful innocents from Africa and sari-clad matrons from India, Khrushchev rehashed Moscow's charge that controlled disarmament is a form of espionage that "no self-respecting country can accept"; suggested that Scandinavian or Benelux troops plus Polish and Czechoslovak garrisons replace U.S., British and French forces in West Berlin; condemned the current U.S. series of nuclear tests in the Pacific. For good measure, Khrushchev waved his newest war club and boasted that Soviet scientists have developed an anti-missile missile...
...hissed when he denounced U.S. and Soviet atomic tests with equal bitterness, but when he contrasted the freedom of SANE to criticize the U.S. Government with the regime-controlled propaganda of his peace congress hosts, there was only shocked silence. Later, when a group of British, U.S. and Scandinavian youths started a ban-the-bomb march near the meeting hall, police snatched their banners and threatened to deport them as "provocateurs...
...powerful firm of Nestlé Alimentana last week launched another carefully planned assault on European palates and pocketbooks. From Nestlé's modernistic Alpine redoubt in the quiet town of Vevey came word that the company had put together a handful of small Austrian, German and Scandinavian firms that it has quietly bought up over the past two years, and set up a frozen food subsidiary called Findus International. Nestlé's market researchers have discovered that the average American consumes 48 lbs. of frozen food a year, the average European less than three. Nestlé hopes...
Their marriage has a double chance of success: they have a two-room apartment of their own in a new apartment building on Moscow's outskirts. It is stylishly decorated with Scandinavian furniture; the walls are lined with abstract paintings by Zhenya's friends, and the books he has hauled back from his travels...
...mein have become stock greengrocer or chain-store items. Moreover, the lower class, with more money to spend, has adopted what was once an upper-class custom: dining out. Women's magazines read mainly by the working class carry recipes for wiener schnitzel and French dressing, discuss the Scandinavian look in furniture, and French perfumes. One family in four has a refrigerator, compared to one in eight only a year ago. Status is measured in terms of latex-backed rugs, papered ceilings and motor scooters. One housewife told a reporter last week: "I do very nicely...