"The Union does not continue any connection with those who go to the city," sigh our hosts.

"What is the income of a farmer?"

"Very low. Half of what a city dweller can earn."

"You have only learned about the dark sides of life of American farmers," Walter Clemens observed morosely, "and learned nothing about the positive side."

"What positive sides are there to talk about, if a peasant is forced to leave the land," we wanted to know.

Walter Clemens had nothing to say.

"Well," he said, after 5 minutes, "now we go to the next press conference."

"They Visit Us"

"Where would you like to go today? You have available the Likhachev Automobile Plant, the Ball Bearing Plant, the Coke and Gas Plant, and the Red October Candy Factory."

"Oh, that is a fine program!" exclaim the American students and immediately start to divide up into groups.

In the group traveling to the candy factory there are girl students and Prof. Robert Bowers, a man advanced in years and with grey hair.

The chief technologist of Red October, Natalia Vasilievna Krechetova, introduces Valia Koroleva and Masha Safonova, workers of the chocolate and caramel workshops, to the guests.

"And we can take photographs?" timidly asks Sally Amster, a student of the Fine Arts Department of Cornell University.

Of course you can!" answer Valia and Masha in astonishment. "Do they really not permit you in your country to take photographs of enterprises which produce food products?"

Taking the covers from their cameras, the Americans hurriedly moved toward the exits from the reception hall.