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BOTH SIDES OF THE OCEAN by Viktor Nekrasov. 191 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston...
...these magazine articles, written on his return to Russia, Novelist Viktor Nekrasov said so many nice things about the U.S. and so many uncomplimentary things about his own country that he was denounced for "bourgeois objectivism" and threatened with expulsion from the Communist Party. The least controllable of the 16-man Russian delegation picked to visit the U.S., Nekrasov panicked the tour leader by always going off on little walks of his own. He marveled at Manhattan skyscrapers and abstract art, happily guzzled Coca-Cola, bought aspirin on the advice of TV commercials. In passing, Nekrasov takes a swipe...
...into drawing up a memorandum that went to the Russians two weeks ago. For six days the Russians did not even acknowledge the memo. But when the U.S. sent a twelve-vehicle convoy across the East German border, Moscow gave its reply. As the convoy reached Marienborn, Lieut. Colonel Viktor Spiridonov ordered passengers to get out. Since there were only 20 passengers in the convoy (along with 24 drivers and assistant drivers), 1st Lieut. John C. Lamb, 25, refused...
...Russians, Valentin Katayev, Viktor Rozov, and Frida Lurye, are on a 30-day visit to this country under the U.S.-Soviet cultural exchange agreement...
Valentin Katayev, Viktor Rozov, and Mme. Frida Lurye will speak on their work at 8 p.m. tonight in the Lowell House Junior Common Room. The three, who are spending a month in the United states under the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Cultural Exchange Agreement, will address the audience in Russian. State Department translators will be present both for the talks and the question-and-answer period which will follow...