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Stuffed Pocket. Needing money, Lopatkin exchanged confidences with Comrade Traibman, director of the Severny restaurant. Together, they put the squeeze on the wages of their waiters, chefs, concessionaires. To make up their losses, the staff began shortchanging customers, went into private enterprise by marketing candy and pastry on the side...
In Iowa there are seven Republican congressional incumbents, one Democratic. Iowa had a bumper corn crop this year, but farmers complain bitterly about being caught in a price-cost squeeze, and Democratic candidates work hard at blaming it on Benson. Republicans, in turn, have made labor corruption a major issue...
In Iowa's Fourth District, an area of small (less than 300 acres) farms running southeast from Des Moines, the state's politics can be seen in microcosm. There, in 1956, Republican Incumbent Karl Le-Compte, 71, won his tenth term by running strong in small towns and...
VENUS IN SPARTA, by Louis Auchincloss (280 pp.; Houghfon Mifflin; $3.50), is about a kind of hidebound Dr. Jekyll whose double life eventually destroys him. At 45, Michael Parish is a member of all the right New York clubs, a trustee of his Grotonesque prep school, and in line for...
Dunkirk (Ealing; M-G-M). Blimey! 'Ow could 'e do it? 'Ere's this bloke, see, this Mike Balcon-'e ain't no bloody amateur when there's a camera abaht. 'E did aowl' Alec's Lavender Hill Mob, an...