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...Bureau. They design fine subs, but have no experience in raising them. They tried once to raise the Komsomolets rescue capsule from 1650 meters, using a steel cable. As the cable was shortening, it lost its resiliency and broke. They lost the capsule. Now, (Rubin's head, Academician Igor) Spasski shows his magic tricks with cables and ship models in a test pool to prove how swell his Kursk project is. It is as ridiculous to watch as it is painful...
...courtyards are the ornate buildings of the Czars, executed, like the history of Russia itself, in a variety of styles: Byzantine, Gothic, Romanesque, Neoclassic. On the tops of the tallest spires are the newest accretions: huge five-pointed crystal stars which catch the sun's rays. The tall Spasski clock overlooking Red Square strikes the hour, and chimes. From cupolas, cornices, eaves and ledges a flock of ravens rises in a black cloud, filling the air with cawing, then settles...
...many evenings, when the Spasski clock strikes 7, Stalin & Co., the members of the Politburo, drive up to the Kremlin in their big black cars and settle down for an all-night discussion of the lands where they will strike next...
There is plenty of evidence that the bloody-minded professors under the Spasski clock miscalculated the time of day in the U.S. For 36 hours after President Truman's announcement that the U.S. would defend Korea, the Soviet press and officials were mum. Had they expected the U.S. move, they would have instructed Jacob Malik, their U.N. delegate, to take his seat at the Security Council and veto any U.N. action. When the Council convened, Malik was not there, and the U.S. gained the immense advantage of U.N. backing...
...signal for the singing of the International, which was taken up by the miles of parading populace. Simultaneously, the Kremlin*guns roared salvos of blank shells for six minutes, their blue smoke spiraling upwards around the pinnacles of St. Basil's Church and over the tower of the Spasski Gate...
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