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Across one-sixth of the world's land surface, the dictatorship of the Soviet proletariat campaigned for re-election last week on a platform of peace, bread, and four more years of all-out effort to "catch up with the West." In snowbound Lettish villages, in orange-scented Georgian watering places, in Uzbek desert oases, the same red-and-white signs marked the local "agitpunkt" campaign headquarters for the 1,364 unopposed candidates running for election to the Supreme Soviet. At rallies everywhere candidates, including the country's top bosses, blared campaign promises as if they really needed...
Heavy snows, high winds and subnormal temperatures last week brought Eastern railroads-and their chilled passengers-their worst disaster in years. Nine inches of snow piled up in Manhattan, 13 inches in Philadelphia, and 14 inches in Washington, D.C., and no icicle-encrusted Lower Slobbovians were ever more solidly snowbound. Groaned one passenger who spent 13½ hours (instead of four) between Washington and New York: "A few inches of snow-and blooey...
...Snowbound in the wilds of Siberia, where they are secretly gathering information on Russian missiles, Crimeds have relayed word to the Free World that, due to censorship, the CRIMSON will limit its publication to five times a week during reading period, dropping its Saturday issue beginning this week...
...quarter rate in dollars (but down a fraction in real terms), and government economists think third-quarter figures will show a further fractional setback. The leveling off of Canada's long-lived boom last week sent jitters from Toronto's Bay Street to Alberta's unseasonably snowbound prairies...
...onetime (1949-52) chief of Army Engineers, who rammed through (1943-45) the Army's tortuous, 478-mile Ledo Road ("Pick's Pike") through Burma, later (1946) began construction of a dam network project (the Pick-Sloan plan) to tame the rambunctious Missouri River, directed (1949) "Operation Snowbound" to relieve storm-clogged Northern states, while head of Army Engineers built the Air Force base at Thule, Greenland; in Washington...