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...noisy confusion compounded of incessant oratory, the rumble of tanks and the clinking of glasses, the Communist world last week celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. In Prague a 105-ft. statue of Stalin was bathed in floodlights. In Budapest a monument to 24 Soviet soldiers killed in the Hungarian "counterrevolution" was unveiled. In Ulan Bator the elite of Outer Mongolia were treated to an address by Soviet ex-Foreign Minister Vyacheslav...
...there a danger that the spectacle of another Kremlin power struggle would mar the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution? Nikita Khrushchev took care of it by sending a dog soaring into space with a whoosh that drowned out all other noises. With every beep from Sputnik II the world got a stark reminder of Russia's strength. If they could send 1,120.8 Ibs. (53 times the weight of the proposed U.S. satellite) more than 1,000 miles into space, the Soviets certainly had a rocket capable of reaching any point on earth...
This week Party Boy Khrushchev, laughing, bantering and boozing, faces the greatest week-long party of all. From Hanoi, Ulan Bator, Pyongyang, Peking, Sofia, Budapest and Warsaw, the great lackeys of the Communist world have converged on Moscow to attend the 40th anniversary ceremonies and pay homage to the backslapping boss of Mother Russia. It is homage fully, if ruthlessly, earned. Never in history has a human being exercised such power as Nikita Khrushchev. None has flourished it with such bibulous, somehow engaging effrontery...
...failed to trace a melodic line straight to the heart of the average Russian. Composer Shostakovich has long since recanted his sins and been allowed once again to sing for his supper. The song he sang last week, his brand-new Eleventh Symphony, was supposed to help celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Actually, it was dedicated not to the big (1917) Bolshevik Revolution but to the lesser, abortive rebellion of 1905. The composition, too, was lesser and abortive...
MOSCOW, Nov. 7--The Soviet Union paraded a mighty array of new tactical rockets and guns at its 40th birthday celebration today without unveiling any of the major surprises the world had been led to expect...