When great reviews and speechmakings fill Moscow's Red Square, the Communists who have the best view of the proceedings are a few research professors and guards at the windows of the twin-spired Historical Museum at the north end. Behind one of those windows last week a U. S. teacher named Arthur Fletcher was taking time off from his research duties in the Institute of the Monopoly of Foreign Trade to pore over a bourgeois treasure the museum director had found for him: The Talisman in Sir Walter Scott's first draft.
"Haven't you any...
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