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RUSSIA: Shameful

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TIME

Well primed with pumpkin pie and Pilgrim punch at a party given by sardonic John C. Wiley, charge d’affaires of the U. S. Embassy in Moscow last week, the New York Times correspondent cabled: “Russians raise pumpkins only as feed for pigs and consider it shameful for human beings to eat them.”

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