F. The Soviet man in the street is riding high
 for the moment.
 1. His cash income is high, and he can expect
 further increases between now and 1970.
 2. He can find an increasing supply of things
 like refrigerators and television sets in
 the stores.
 3. But what he really wants is more meat,
 milk, and other quality foods, and less
 reliance on bread and potatoes.
 4. If the harvests fall off, the food will
 not be there, and the extra cash will
 just buy more and louder consumer
 grumbling.
 G. Even in this relatively good year, the Soviet
 man-in-the-street has to stand in line for
 hours, and then runs into spot shortages,
 shoddy production, or sizes that don't quite
 fit.
 1. There are more current Russian jokes on
 consumer problems than on any other subject.
 A typical story tells of the visitor who
 found nobody home at the apartment of
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