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...like a 1941 Packard)-the Reds admit that their postwar designs "are in some respects inferior." A special Auto Ministry will be set up to boost production (1955 planned output: a bare 80,000 cars), cut prices, bring out a new people's car called the Volga, facelift the others...
...fire. In eleven months they bicycled through ten countries, sleeping at farms and youth hostels, visiting mines and factories-"studying life," said Walter. They got visas to Soviet Russia and worked for 16 months with other Americans and foreigners at the American-built automobile plant at Gorky, on the Volga River. On his first day in the U.S.S.R., Walter's pocket was picked...
After the "trial," Father Leoni was sent to a prison camp, Mordovia, between Moscow and the Urals. "There, hunger was our constant companion. Every day they gave us 20 ounces of rye bread, two cups of tea and two dishes of 'Volga.' We called the soup they gave us 'Volga' because it was nothing but water. On this diet the prisoners were expected to do heavy labor -mostly cutting lumber in the forest around the camp. Nonetheless, I succeeded in carrying out my mission as a priest-secretly. A Hungarian turner who was Catholic found...
...most difficult thing to find was the wine, but the Lord saw to it that I never lacked. Sometimes I made it myself, fermenting the juice I squeezed out of bunches of dried grapes that I got from a fellow prisoner in exchange for many platefuls of 'Volga.' I kept this precious wine in a perfume bottle the size of a matchbox...
...Volga is the fourth and most advanced of the automobiles designed by Soviet factories for public sale. (A fifth, the ZIS, the big, black limousine modeled after the Packard of 15 years ago, is made to order only for high government use.) It is the first to be offered in a variety of shiny colors (dark blue, pastel green, beige light blue), instead of the usual flat drabs of other Soviet cars, like the Pobeda (built along the lines of an undersized 1939 Ford) and the ZIM (which looks like an elderly Buick). The Volga is also the first...