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...rolls west out of Grand Forks, on and on down a highway seeming to go nowhere. The soil is deep black, rich for the yellow durum wheat that grows on it. The farmhouses with their freshly painted white barns are few and far between. The towns marked on the maps are almost nonexistent when whooshed through; what few cars there are move at 80 m.p.h. to 90 m.p.h. They have to; otherwise, they too would never get anyplace...
...from the U.S.S.R. last month (TIME, June 19), and is presently in Ann Arbor, Mich. In a letter to Leonid Brezhnev that was leaked by the Soviet secret police last week, Brodsky begged the party chief "for an opportunity to continue to exist in Russian literature and on Russian soil...
Developer David Santini, 39, a wealthy soil engineer, claims that his plastic slope is the "best artificial track in the world." It is covered with white polyethylene molded into bristly triangles and slick circles. Before taking off, skiers coat their skis with oil from a spinning roller. Although runs down the 1,200-ft. competition course reach speeds of 60 m.p.h., the synthetic snow seems unquestionably safer than the natural variety; no one has yet broken so much as a finger...
...country might one day turn into a battlefield of a Sino-So-viet war. South Korean President Park, in the wake of President Nixon's trip to Peking, evidently decided that, instead of waiting for the withdrawal of the 43,000 U.S. troops still stationed on South Korean soil, it would be better to start talking with Pyongyang while the Americans are still there...
...only a limited number of Russians have dachas of their own, hundreds of thousands have access to some kind of rural retreat. "Every summer Friday afternoon half of Moscow seems to leave the city," reports TIME'S John Shaw. "Even a quarter-acre of Mother Russia's soil gives them a place to escape to from the aggravations of communal urban life. Tens of millions of country-born Russians have been converted into citydwellers by industrialization in a generation or less. Many of them remain country folk at heart. To ordinary Russians, the extravagant, arbitrary privileges of their...