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...Plan. The State Planning Committee (GOSPLAN) allocates all investment capital, sets every price and production goal and determines all foreign trade. The plan, which sets policy for some 350,000 enterprises, affects every Soviet citizen. Lawyers must try their quota of cases, barbers must shear so many heads and taxi drivers must log so many miles. The plan determines the amount of raw materials a plant will receive and the number of workers it is assigned; fulfilling the plan's quotas is the only economic measuring stick...
...building a second large automobile and truck factory has ceased; and Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper, has printed lengthy exhortations to conserve energy. Except at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport, where many foreign flights arrive, jets of Aeroflot, the national airline, no longer use their own engines to taxi into takeoff position; to save fuel, they are towed into position by tractors. NATO radar bases report that Soviet air force training flights, already 30% below those of the U.S. and Europe, have been cut back even further...
...license, the fledgling motorist must take a state-run driver's education course that lasts 180 hours, including 32 hours behind the wheel; truck and taxi drivers must endure 660 hours of instruction. The country's premier car buff is none other than Leonid Brezhnev; he is the proud owner of ten snazzy foreign models, all gifts from heads of state...
Newark, July 1967. Violence exploded when blacks heard and believed a false rumor that the police had killed a black taxi driver. As the rioting spread, exaggerated reports of black snipers prompted the intervention of the National Guard. In six days of rioting, 26 were killed, 1,500 injured, and damage reached $30 million...
...anecdote to another. Visitors included Noel Coward, Jean Cocteau, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and Gladys Stern, whom Morgan describes as "bursting fat." Morgan looks back to Maugham's youth, when he had to live in the unfashionable section of London and take the streetcar, instead of a taxi, to attend the smart dinner parties to which he was invited. In that young man he finds shades of the self-serving social climber Maugham wrote about when he depicted Hugh Walpole as Alroy Kear in Cakes...