Word: stalingraders
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...choose her customers, and takes only those with the best references-and the most money. Minor house repairs are another lucrative source of private income: a Literaturnaya Gazeta reporter estimated that from one-third to one-half of all consumer expenditures for such services goes into private pockets. In Stalingrad he found that a sofa bought for 600 rubles costs 416 rubles more to be put into good shape...
...leisurely state visit in the U.S.S.R., where he got the sort of red-carpet greeting ordinarily reserved for important allies, Ethiopia's wiry Emperor Haile Selassie, 67, took a sightseeing cruise down the Volga and through the Volga-Don Canal. At Stalingrad he took the helm of the steamship Arkady Geidar, gave a brief demonstration of seamanship to prove that the Lion of Judah is no landlubber...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Film clips of the brutal battle of Stalingrad, which changed the course of war on the eastern front...
...regional enclaves, which the 105 bosses have tried to remake into self-contained little kingdoms. Plants dependent on outside supplies found them hard to get. In Tashkent, for example, the Voroshilov farm machinery works had to lay off workers for two months when shipments of vital castings from the Stalingrad tractor works failed to appear. Last week the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, worried by a "chain reaction" that is growing "like an avalanche." published a decree imposing fines and jail terms up to three years for "parochial" administrators who unpatriotically lag on delivery to other districts...
Last week Khrushchev carried his political housewifery into the army. The Red army newspaper published word that* Colonel General F. I. Golikov, 57, a World War II commander (Stalingrad, Kharkov) who served most recently as chief of Moscow's Armored Forces Academy, had been named the army's chief ) political commissar. Golikov replaced Colonel General Alexei Zheltov, a political general who held the post when Marshal Zhukov was dismissed as army chief last summer on charges of interfering with the ideological training of officers. (Zheltov is remembered as the Soviet deputy high commissioner in occupied Austria who remarked...