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Keeping up with the Joneses, or the Ivanovs, is just as difficult in Soviet Russia as it is elsewhere; the difference is that in Russia your life may depend upon it. Before 1949, it was the height of intellectual fashion in the U.S.S.R. to praise an economic treatise written by one Nikolai A. Voznesensky. He won a Stalin Prize for it. Voznesensky was a favorite of Stalin's favorite Zhdanov, the smartest young economist on the Red horizon, Vice Premier at 42, and the Politburo's chief wartime planner...
...YORK "TIMES" NAMING THE WINNER UNTIL I ASK MR. HAGERTY "WHEN WILL YOU CALL IT?" THIS IS WHOLLY TRUE WITH RESPECT TO THE DECISIONS OF THE VOTERS OF NEW YORK CITY AND STATE. BUT I DEPEND ON MY OWN JUDGMENT TO DETERMINE WHO IS THE NATIONAL WINNER AND WHEN...
...awkward mishmash of straight American, pidgin talk and sign language, with occasional help from the few interpreters at hand. All this forwards the brotherhood of man. But it can be tough on night patrol in the cold wastelands between the lines, where each man's life may depend on perfect understanding and precision...
...partial to business as the present one has been to labor. How tragic it would be if the N.A.M. should ever feel that its mission is to speak only for manufacturers. We must speak . . . for all men. For our power to succeed in serving our customers better will depend on their power to act as free individuals...
...oppose the Rhode Islanders' individual stars, McCurdy will depend heavily on his sophomores. The work horse will be Bob Rittenburg, who will enter the hurdles, broad jump, high jump, and perhaps the relay...