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...York, decided the Russians, might conceivably be all right as a place to visit, but they sure wouldn't want to live there. The daily Vechernyaya Moskva took a long look at Manhattan's skyline and found it little more than "an accumulation of flat surfaces, a chaotic mass of styles, like monstrous stalagmites . . ." Furthermore, Manhattan's topless towers are dangerous and uncomfortable. On windy days, "lamps swing and water splashes . . . The inhabitants of the Empire State Building can hardly experience great pleasure when the tremendous building swings with the wind and one can clearly hear various...
However lustily it is beaten back with proletarian hammer & sickle, bourgeois human nature will out. Recently, in an eloquent letter to the editor of Moscow's folksy evening daily, Vechernyaya? Moskva, crusading Lieut. Colonel V. Kotko self-righteously attacked one aspect of this un-Marxian state of affairs-tipping...