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...sued the Lampoon for libel and threatened to tear down their Hearst-bequeathed edifice and install Benny Jacobson in its stead. He's a helluva lot funnier than the Lampoon anyway," he said. Along more "serious" lines, the Dude introduced a bill into the council to strike the words "Lenin" and "Leningrad" from all Cambridge library books. Eddic proudly tells anyone who will listen how his father predicted the "notorious spread of Marxism in the University...
...Communism," said Lenin, "is Soviet Authority plus electrification." Since then, five Five-Year Plans have come and gone. Soviet Authority is still supreme, but the electrification of Russia hardly extends beyond the big cities. Last week Lenin's successors announced a sixth Five-Year Plan, the main feature of which was a bracket of atomic power stations with a total capacity of some 2.5 million kilowatts...
...more technicians and specialists and more than twice as many hospital beds. Airports are to be reconstructed, air freight is to be doubled, and new fast passenger planes are to ply feeder routes. But, faithful to the Leninist dream (in Russia, electric light bulbs are ironically called Ilyich after Lenin's patronymic), the big story was electric power: an overall increase from 160 to 320 billion kilowatts. No mention was made of the larger atomic-energy target for 1960, but an atomic-powered transarctic liner with special hydraulic ice-melting monitors was promised...
During his tour, Malia used Moscow as his central base of operations and traveled from there to the different libraries in Russia and Central Asia. He effected agreements with the two largest libraries in the USSR, the Lenin Library in Moscow (the Soviet equivalent of the Library of Congress), which will now send back issues of PRAVDA to the U.S., and the public library in Leningrad...
...have begun waking up and straightening their shoulders. The factors which contributed to this great awakening have been the great October [1917] Revolution in this country and the weakening of the colonial powers as a result of the first, and particularly the second, World War . . . The time would come, Lenin used to say, when hundreds of millions of people in Asia would become an active factor in world history . . . This time has now come...