Word: adzhubeis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...history, a Pope of the Roman Catholic Church last week received a ranking Soviet leader. The Pope was John XXIII, an intuitive man more concerned with the fate of Catholics back of the Iron Curtain than with scoring political points. The Communist was Izvestia's Editor Aleksei Adzhubei, who can carry a message directly and informally to Khrushchev because he is married to Khrushchev's daughter...
...warming relationship between Rome and Moscow has lately been a sort of Father Alphonse-Comrade Gaston act. Last September the Vatican invited Russian Orthodox observers to the Ecumenical Council. Last month the Soviet Union released Ukrainian Archbishop Josyf Slipyi from his long years in prison. And last week Editor Adzhubei, clearly working under orders from on high, showed up in Rome for what was billed as a "lecture tour...
...answer to Jackie Kennedy. While Papa toured collective farms and industrial plants, Galina stole the show in her dazzling French dresses, Italian spike heels, and huge, dangling earrings. Making her debut on the diplomatic circuit, she completely overshadowed Nikita Khrushchev's daughter Rada, wife of Izvestia Editor Aleksei Adzhubei, who was also along on the trip. In contrast to Galina's exhibition of haute couture, Rada "left the impression,'' sniffed one Yugoslav, "that she does not consider dressing important...
...gravity: to improve communications between the world's two leading powers and to arrange a swap of television appearances between his boss and the boss of all the Russians, Nikita Khrushchev. Alas for unlucky Pierre-he never had a chance. From the moment he was met by Aleksei Adzhubei, editor of Izvestia and Khrushchev's son-in-law, the swart, short, 36-year-old ex-reporter from San Francisco found himself up to his cigar butt in fast moving, stomach-stuffing Soviet hospitality...
...with vodka, champagne and several Georgian wines-and, for hours after, a long conversation in which Khrushchev did most of the talking. The Soviet Premier enjoyed himself so hugely that he decided to do it again the following day and bring Mrs. Khrushchev and the kids, i.e., Son Sergei, Adzhubei and his wife Rada. Salinger had to pass up a planned engagement with Russian newsmen in Moscow...