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...Bank of Development and Rural Cooperatives, the Royal Publishing Co., the Melli Insurance Co., the Gohestan Sugar Mill, the Fars and Khuzistan Cement plant, scores of hotels, restaurants and nightclubs, including the Kolbeh in Teheran, which remains one of the few spots in Iran still offering French strippers, Russian vodka and Caspian caviar, despite the austerity laws imposed earlier this year...
...Reasonable. These strident remarks, which made the world's headlines, were mostly passed on the vodka circuit, in those little diplomatic huddles that are the Soviet equivalent of Meet the Press. Many of the remarks were more muted by the time they were printed in Pravda. What Khrushchev wanted to convey to his own people was delivered earlier in a formal nationwide radio and television address, scrupulously similar in staging, and even in tone, to the previous week's "fireside chat'' by President John Kennedy. Natty in silk tie and bemedaled grey striped suit, Russia...
...fearlessly outspoken about their dislike of Communist Boss Walter Ulbricht's regime. "Why did you come here?" asked a salesgirl wonderingly. "Why does anyone come here?" Quipped a bitter bartender: "Have a socialist drink: crush one potato in a glass, drink it fast and try to think of vodka." "Shall I describe how it is to live here?" sneered a girl government clerk. "It stinks...
...slogs through his days dulled with despair, not even bothering to stew himself with vodka. Then he sees a five-year-old orphan boy gnawing at a melon rind. Out of pity and his own sorrow, he tells the child that he is his father. The boy is not really fooled, but he accepts the pretense with joy. The two walk off down a mud road to the man's village, where he will take up life as a carpenter again...
...fancies himself a black-dirt diplomat-the visitors listened stonily to a lecture on what was wrong with Russia. The Soviets should build better farm-access roads, said Garst; they could improve their living standards by getting up an hour earlier in the morning. Then Garst broke out some vodka left over from the Khrushchev visit, but the newsmen insisted on U.S. whisky...