If wishes were horses, beggars wad ride, And a' the warld be drowned with pride.
Last month, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky emphatically told the world that the peace-loving Soviet was using atomic energy for peaceful purposes "right now" (TIME, Nov. 21). Said he at Lake Success: "We are razing mountains; we are irrigating deserts." But in reporting his speech, Pravda made a significant switch: it quoted Vishinsky as saying only that Russia's atomic energists wanted to raze mountains.
Asked by U.S. newsmen at U.N. last week what he thought of Pravda's editing, Vishinsky merely snapped: "The topic is exhausted." But...