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...wore a "suspicious-looking" money belt, took pictures of the harbor in Baku and incautiously gave chance Russian acquaintances his copy of Doctor Zhivago and a couple of New York newspapers. The day after that, police expelled James Shultz, 21, an Otis, Kans. boy on a Y.M.C.A. tour. Komsomolskaya Pravda said that Shultz had met in Kiev "a ras cal ready to sell his honor for foreign rags," had given him three Bibles as well as some clothes. ("I don't know of anything I'd rather be charged with," said Shultz's father, a Methodist minister...
...growing favorite in Pravda, official handicap sheet of the Soviet Communist hierarchy: mop-haired Mikhail A. Suslov, 58, party braintruster and veteran member of the Presidium. Three times last week Pravda quoted lengthily from "important" Suslov speeches. Unsurprising contents of all three: fawning eulogies of steady booster Nikita Khrushchev. . . . Wealthy Pasta King Giovanni Buitoni's money is in his tummy, but his heart is really in his throat. The 68-year-old macaroni maker is going into opera, he says, to "fulfill one of my fondest dreams," will sing the basso profundo role of Don Basilic in a charity...
...press had already promised a "huge and joyous" reception, Soviet cameramen did what they could; they rounded up a loyal band of local Communists, herded them from stopping place to stopping place, scrambling about to shoot the same few faces from every possible angle. Though they dutifully reported in Pravda that "the center of Vienna has blossomed into smiles-the Schwarzenbergplatz is a sea of people," the Soviet newsmen complained bitterly to Austrian colleagues about the "barbaric" and "uncultured" welcome...
...last week Pravda not only reasserted the validity of peaceful coexistence but also counterattacked with an assault on the domestic policy of the upstart revolutionaries in Peking...
Infantile Sickness. Identifying them only as "certain leftists in international Communism," Pravda charged that the Chinese leaders suffered from the same "infantile sickness of leftism" that Lenin denounced in some of his party's more hotheaded "sectarians" in the early days of the revolution 40 years ago. Now, as then, said Soviet Communism's official mouthpiece, history cannot be hustled. "Trying to anticipate the results of fully matured Communism" by great leaps forward and by rushing to set up communes, said Pravda witheringly, "is like trying to teach higher mathematics to a four-year-old child...