CHINA: Come to the Fair

For the past year a mammoth road show, designed to extol and illustrate the glories of life in the Soviet Union, has been touring the great cities of Red China. With more than 11,000 individual displays, the Exhibition on Economic and Cultural Achievements of the Soviet Union has impressed capacity crowds in Peking and Shanghai with the wonder of such purported commonplaces of Russian life as nylon stockings, sable stoles, wristwatches, farm machinery, tractors, trucks, and ladies' high-heeled slippers.

Last month, after the Russian fair moved on to a specially built $2,000,000...

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