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LOVE AND BE SILENT, by Curfis Harnock (246 pp.; Harcourt, Brace & World; $4.50). Strangers may think that Kaleburg, Iowa, is just a "Siberian collection of buildings," but to Farmer Robert Schneider it means pie and coffee at the Kaleburg Kafé, dances at the Cornflower Ballroom, high old times in Buzzy Burns's tavern, with its row of convenient cabins out back. His wife Donna is both high-spirited and indecisive, but he settles her down with a tumbling succession of babies. His spinster sister Alma proves more difficult. She falls in love with soft-spoken Roger Larkin...
Still combining pleasantries with threats, Khrushchev turned from local farm conditions to international politics, met for luncheon near the booming Siberian industrial city of Novosibirsk with Finnish President Urho K. Kekkonen, who had traveled 2,380 miles by auto, train and jet to find out whether his country's delicate neutrality was about to be shattered...
Soviet pressure against Finland had mounted steadily since last month, when Moscow demanded joint military talks to meet the alleged threat of West German "aggression." As Tass reported the Siberian table talk, Khrushchev told the Finnish leader that, "before it is too late," the frontier of Finland and the Soviet Union must be fortified against the NATO partners West Germany, Denmark and Norway. "All-round cooperation between our two countries." continued Khrushchev, "requires firm confidence that Finland will abide tomorrow, as it does today, by its chosen foreign policy line"-strict neutrality based on friendship with Russia...
...kind of truth palatable right now. So everyone on the Moscow stage denounced Molotov and agreed that he had never been any good, anyway. Back in 1937, reported Party Control Chairman Nikolai Shvernik. Molotov had been so "extremely cynical'' that when his car accidentally skidded off a Siberian road, Molotov demanded and got the conviction of a group of guiltless persons on charges of attempted assassination...
...radio transmitter were stuck in mid-orbit, Soviet Cosmonaut Sherman Titov last August repeatedly exulted, "I am eagle, I am eagle . . ." Last week a report newly published by two Russian scientists revealed that Titov had also been as seasick as a puppy during the 25-hour flight. Although the Siberian-born jet jockey spun his dials satisfactorily despite the malaise and disorientation, the Russian experts admitted what many physiologists have long suspected: that the human capacity to endure prolonged weightlessness remains to be proved...