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...sweets provided by the Communist Party. Malenkov, along with other Soviet bosses, has made a point of stepping down from his fearful eminence to participate in precinct meetings of the party and the workers. He has been popping up in towns and villages all over European Russia to pump oldsters' hands and wave at the muzhiks from his train. His puppets in satellite Hungary have revived old-style coffee shops, which under Stalin were banned as "reactionary," and let American jazz (Blue Tango, C'est Si Bon) push Russian classical music off the radio...
...then John's irate daddy, 76-year-old Industrialist John R. Winter, fired the persuasive Brazilian. According to John, Sabino forthwith threatened to "pump me full of hot lead," and made John write off all debts on the clothes, TV set and car, and on top of that had the gall to demand a $100-a-week salary for life...
...copper-rich British protectorate of Northern Rhodesia, Tory Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton last week opened a spanking new high school, financed by the British government and built voluntarily by its Negro students. In Lusaka's Government House, whites and blacks mingled at a cocktail party, lining up to pump the visiting minister's hand and to air their grievances...
...known before or since. "Women at their marketing, men at their daily trade, the cobbler at his bench, the ploughman trudging the furrow-all learned to know the awful smell of burning human flesh, the flesh of a neighbor, of a man or woman as familiar as the parish pump. Mingling with the steam of washing day, or with the reek of autumn bonfires, or polluting the sweetness of June, that stench . . . even in a cruel age, left behind it a memory and a disgust...
...even so, mistakes happen. Bauer, explaining in a lecture that the Russian youth's mind was sharp but lacking in access to information, compared it to a water pump filled with air, which cries for water. The next day's headlines however, read, "Says Mind of Soviet Youth Like Vacuum...