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...building. Though what are called chaevye (literally: "for tea") gratuities may still be refused in the provinces, Moscow is full of waiters, doormen, taxi drivers, barbers, grocery delivery girls and manicurists who do not spurn, but come to expect and even to exact the servant's tribute. Komsomolskaya Pravda told of barbers who "scalp" non-tippers to show them up as "cheapskates," and Izvestia reports that, since barbers share in the gross, half the barbers' income now comes from spraying overpriced Eau de Cologne on customers, thus raising their bill for a 2-ruble haircut to 10 rubles...
Alexander (Sasha) Krivopalov, a reporter for Komsomolskaya Pravda, the official newspaper for the Young Communist League (daily circulation over 3 million), was also a favorite among students and spent an afternoon at the CRIMSON, sitting through an editorial meeting and discussing the paper's operations with the President, Alan H. Grossman...
...movies shown to President Eisenhower and Premier Khrushchev the night of their arrival at Camp David have been identified. Pravda reports that Mr. K requested, and was shown, a film of the Nautilus' voyage under the polar icecap. The President requested, and was shown, a western called "Warlock." One of those present told the Times that the movies was "very long, very bloody, very dull." This reporter saw "Warlock," and concurs. (New York Times, 10/19/59...
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...Russian press has given the tour a play unprecedented in Soviet journalism. Readers have been treated to a feast of exhaustive, fulsome and extraordinary detail, including pictures of Mrs. Khrushchev-a woman in whose existence Red papers previously betrayed only a passive interest, or none at all. Last week Pravda (circ. 5,500,000), the official party organ, topped all the sensational journalism by publishing the first cartoon of a Soviet leader ever to appear in the Russian Press...