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Pasternak's work was recently denounced by Pravda and its author was advised to refuse the proffered award. There has been no official Soviet exhortation that the writer denounce the novel himself, as he was nearly pressured into doing in a letter to an Italian publisher several years ago, when the book was first set up to be printed...
...Moscow, where the food and service is better but not much, the Soviet government is also grappling with the restaurant problem. Moskovskaya Pravda related the sad story of Comrade Lopatkin, director of Moscow's popular Dynamo restaurant, who first fell from grace when his pet cat, Vasya, lost its appetite. Disdaining offerings of liverwurst, white bread, porridge and grapes, the cat did agree to eat the best canned crabmeat from the restaurant's storeroom, and was soon wolfing a can a day. Next, Lopatkin's wife admired the restaurant chandelier, and Lopatkin sent it home. Before long...
...swindlers have all been caught now, crowed Moskovskaya Pravda, but there was a moral to be learned: "We worry a lot over the cleanliness of tablecloths and plates in restaurants and sanitation in the kitchen. This is right. But we must not forget that the most important thing is hygiene of the soul, the crystal cleanliness of those the state has chosen to serve our people." No forwarding addresses were given for Comrades Akopov, Traibman and Lopatkin...
...North Africa patiently maneuvering to deliver Vichy France's colonies to the World War II Allies, in Berlin during the airlift, in Trieste and at Panmunjom, in London during the Suez crisis. To Tunisians he is "Monsieur Bans Offices," to austere Britons he is "Breezy Bob," and to Pravda he is "Warmonger Murphy." To friends and enemies alike, he is perhaps the world's fastest-moving, most highly skilled diplomatic fireman...
...Gaulle relinquishes his temporary mandate. On the far left, tubby Communist Boss Jacques busily trying party as the voice of "the republican masses," opened a drive for a popular front to defeat De Gaulle's proposed constitutional reforms. (After a long, nervous and undecided silence. Moscow's Pravda las: week published a Duclos interview labeling De Gaulle's government ''the embodiment of the blackest reaction." ) At the other end of the political spectrum, fascist-inclined Pierre Poujade dissolved his 31 -man bloc in the National Assembly, said it was time to re sume...