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From Project Mailer
Norman Mailer: Works and Days
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“Mailer Says Soviets Improving.” AP wire story, 17 August. Contains quote from 84.16 on how Russia has changed “from a stern, war-rationed economy, bulwarked by prodigious terror, to an immense welfare state drowning in cynicism, bribery, waste, shoddy products and oppression.”