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Finns under arms. They drove back the Russians in a series of savage, no quarter battles, but when the advance stopped at the Svir River, the gamble was lost. After Stalingrad, the Russians came surging back with heavy tanks and Stormovik planes, crippling the Finnish army in its long retreat through the forests and swamps of Karelia...
Only one hint of the Soviet Union's vastly stepped-up nuclear program (five bombs exploded since August 1956) was given by Pervukhin: an order to rush work on big electric-power projects-essential to atomic development-at Kuybyshev, Saratov and Stalingrad (on the Volga) and Kairak-Kum, Irkutsk and Novosibirsk (in Siberia). Something speedier and more pliable than the old Piatiletki was needed to harness these horses...
Died. Friedrich von Paulus, 66, onetime Wehrmacht field marshal who led the ill-fated German Sixth Army at the decisive World War II Battle of Stalingrad, sold out to the Russians after his capture; of a stroke; in Dresden, East Germany...
Prokofiev & Tolstoy The U.S. witnessed a major musical event this week: the American premiere of the late Sergei Prokofiev's War and Peace. Although the composer finished his first version while the Germans were still rumbling toward Stalingrad, the sprawling work, which in one version took eight hours, had been performed only once before outside Russia (in Florence, in 1953). The present 2½hour edition-brilliantly produced in an English translation by NBC-TV's enterprising Opera Theater, and conducted by Peter Herman Adler-was. the version Prokofiev himself approved before his death four years...
Randolph Churchill, who can be counted upon to put most snidely what others may be thinking, compared Eden's generalship with Hitler's conduct in leading his troops to Stalingrad and leaving them there, except that "Hitler, with all his faults, did not winter in Jamaica." The Conservative Daily Telegraph reported Eden in Jamaica keeping in "fitful touch with London." which was not "fair to his colleagues in London-or, indeed, to the country." In the bars of Fleet Street and the clubs of St. James's, Eden's future and a possible realignment of Tory...