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Show at Kiex and Leningrad and is screduled to open in Moscow in early December. It is estimated es-timated that over a half million mil-lion Russians will visit the display. Russia's first telephone exchange ex-change was opened in 1882, only two years before telephones tele-phones came to Utah. The use, however, of the telephone has not developed as rapidly as in this country. There are less than three telephones per 11)0 people in Russia today as compared with well over 40 per 100 in Utah. Larry Maxwell was selected to accompany the exhibit to Russia because of his technical tech-nical knowledge of the telephone tele-phone business and his ability to speak, read and write Russian. "The Russian people are friendly and curious about America," he said. "They have a keen interest in our communications equipment, but generally conversations drift to our way of life, with questions ques-tions such as: 'Where do you live?' 'Is it true American families hav& two cars?' 'How much do you earn a week?' " Other questions about social conditions, particularly on racial ra-cial issues, are keyed to rattle rat-tle the guides, Mr. Maxwell said. RUSSIANS FIND PHONE BOOKS REAL NOVELTY In America, the telephone directroy goes with the telephone tele-phone as the menu goes with the restaurant. Not so in Russia. Rus-sia. There, phone books are for the selected few. Larry Maxwell, a Mountain States Telephone supervisor from Cedar City, who is representing rep-resenting the United States Information In-formation Agency at a "Communications "Com-munications USA" exhibit in Russia, said "The 2,000 telephone tele-phone directories in the display dis-play are causing much interest ' among the Russian people." i Telephone directories are not free in Russia. They are hard to come by. The average Russian must call a telephone office to get a number. At the phone book display, names of the major city di-. di-. rectories have been printed on the covers in Rusian. Visitors like to thumb through them for names of relatives in thin country. , communications USA, which has been criss-crossing the Soviet Union, consists of a display of tools used in the telephone industry, a fully equipped installer's van, telephone tele-phone instruments for home, business and industry as well as cables, relays, switching equipment and directories, i Computers and high - speed mechanical c o m m u n ications equipment are highlighted as are also space communications facilities. The exhibit has been shown |