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...rheumy eyes at the broad streets and tall buildings. He was Andrei Bubnov, one of the five top Bolsheviks to direct the October 1917 Revolution. As Lenin's Commissar of Education he had set out to create Homo sovieticus, the new Soviet man. But somewhere along the line, vodka-swilling Andrei Bubnov had tangled with a new type of Soviet man called Joseph Stalin, and in 1937 he disappeared. Unlike tens of thousands of other old Bolsheviks, Bubnov had survived 19 years of Soviet prison camps, to be raised for the living by Nikita Khrushchev...
...Malenkov, said a Soviet spokesman solemnly, does not drink vodka...
...formed channels of communication between them and Moscow." Consul General N. V. Ivanov denied (as the Communists always do) any subversive activity, but freely admitted another charge leveled by the Union government : that Negroes, who can not buy or be given liquor in South Africa, had been served vodka at Russian consular parties...
About one night a week, Russian viewers are treated to full-length, live ballet, drama or opera. Three cameras are used in these broadcasts, but during intermissions they remain fixed on the closed curtains of the stage. The TV audience can then have tea or vodka. New feature films are run on TV within ten days of their appearing in Moscow movie houses. A surprising once-a-week feature is 30 minutes of U.S. newsreels, supplied to Soviet TV by Hearst's Telenews Films. They emphasize baby parades and weight-lifting contests...
...Tool Box. In Los Angeles, police looked for the noisy customer who walked into Jimmy Ostroff's bar, was refused a "screwdriver" (vodka and orange juice), robbed Owner Ostroff of $200 at gun point while he bellowed: "If I can't have a screwdriver, how do you like this...