Radio: Messages Received

Ulmer Turner, a Chicago news analyst with an expensive hobby, has been hearing some strange sounds lately out of Radio Moscow. Soviet propaganda. Turner reports, is getting a soft pedal. The time devoted to Russian music (especially Rimsky-Korsakov) is increasing, the announcers are sprouting Oxford accents, and a Big Ben touch has been added: "We pause now while you hear the clock in the Kremlin strike midnight." Turner does not claim to know the significance of these facts, but it is just the kind of information he has long wanted to give his...

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