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...Tass the Soviet Press agency, transmitted a 500-word article Tuesday saying that "American Professor Marshall Schulman is expected to leave Moscow tomorrow after certain facts of his unseemly activities were made publicly known last weekend...
...relatives three times a year, receive letters once a month, and be "paroled" only to a less severe camp. Since neither man is especially robust, long hours spent chopping trees and doing other heavy outdoor labor under sub-zero winter conditions could prove fatal. As far as Pravda, Tass and Izvestia were concerned, that would hardly be too harsh for what Tass described as "dirty foam brought up by the turbulent stream of life...
...left. Said Florida's Democratic Representative Charles Bennett, who had taken the House floor to protest Thompson's burial at Arlington: "Any other decision would have been an affront to the noble young men who have given so much of their lives to our country." Tass, the Soviet news agency, condemned the decision as "a mockery of an American patriot." Thompson's widow Sylvia offered the ultimate non sequitur: "Are they now saying that Arlington is only for political conformists...
Died. Sergei Korolev, 59, long-rumored head of the Soviet space program, now identified by Tass as the hitherto anonymous designer of the 1957 Sputnik and 1959 Lunik satellites as well as the Vostok and Voskhod spacecrafts used in the world's first manned flight (Yuri Gagarin, in 1961) and first space walk (Alexei Leonov, last March); of complications following surgery; in Moscow...
...been getting quiet advice from Elizabeth Arden and the Paris Academy of Beauty, was already dispensing complexion cures (for 1 ruble, or $1.11) and facials (2 rubles) to as many as 1,500 customers a day. Apparently, their problems were serious. "In the opinion of the beauticians," reported Tass, "the most difficult thing is to convince the patients that the tragic defects in their appearance do not demand medical attention." Just in case they do, however, the institute's plastic surgery department will offer a complete line of nose bobs at a flat rate of 50 rubles per capita...