Russia: Train No. I 3, Where Are You?

As the guardian of Soviet morality, junior grade, the Communist Party youth newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda frequently berates students for hooliganism, debaucheries, or ideological lapses unworthy of Marxists. Fortnight ago, the newspaper turned with relish on a new target: a group of 44 U.S. students from U.C.L.A. and other schools whose low jinks aboard the Moscow-Warsaw express would, if true, have stirred a furor on the Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe.

The students called the newspaper's account highly exaggerated. But Komsomolskaya Pravda insisted that the railroad revel began in Moscow, when the college kids approached train No. 13, "bawling bawdy songs...

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