Love, 8a.m. —10p.m.
(N.Z. Preu Asm.—Copyright’ MOSCOW, April 9. AU he wanted to do was send a love note by wire to his girl friend, the Associated Press reported. But Y. Alyansky ran smack up against Soviet bureaucracy. Dialling a special phone number in Leningrad at 11 p.m. as he had done before, Alyansky was surprised to hear the telephone operator teU him new rules demanded he tell the subject of the telegram. He got embarrassed. “You see, I have a love message.”
“Love? That’s only from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.” “What kind of message can I send now?”
“Now you can send news of a death, and in extreme cases—arrangements for a meeting.” Alyanskey tried to beat the system. “Take a death message,” he said solemnly. “I am dying of love. . .” “Comrade, do you understand Russian? No love messages until 8 aan.” “Then take a meeting message: I am flying to you on wings of love. ..” The operator hung up.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31341, 11 April 1967, Page 2
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