Word: adzhubeis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Numbers. Evtushenko has powerful friends at court, notably Voronov, a member of Pravda's editorial board, and, through him, Izvestia Editor Alexis Adzhubei, Khrushchev's son-in-law. Another influential supporter is 71-year-old Novelist Ilya Ehrenburg, whose 1954 novel, The Thaw, gave history's chapter heading to destalinization. In 1960 Evtushenko rated a passport, has subsequently wandered widely in Western Europe, Africa and elsewhere abroad. On two trips to Cuba he gathered material for a movie scenario, visited the house where Hemingway wrote...
...another-and hinting that they would like to do more talking and smiling. Off to Paris went White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger for a meeting with Mikhail Kharlamov, press officer of the Soviet Foreign Ministry. And into Washington, at President Kennedy's invitation, flew Aleksei Adzhubei, editor of Izvestia and son-in-law of Premier Nikita Khrushchev...
...Adzhubei and his wife Rada broke off a South American tour to answer the President's invitation, got the full Kennedy treatment in Washington. They lunched with the Kennedys on pheasant and wild rice, were welcomed to the President's press conference, and were introduced to Caroline Kennedy, who had in tow her dog Pushinka, a gift from Premier Khrushchev. Adzhubei had a private talk with Kennedy that was described only as "wide-ranging," "candid" and "not uncordial"; Jackie Kennedy took Rada on a tour of the White House nursery. The Adzhubeis also took a meal with...
...With him Adzhubei brought to Salinger an assortment of Armenian brandies-and an invitation to visit Russia in the spring. To the chagrin of many State Department regulars, who look with concern on Salinger's diplomatic dabblings, the President promptly approved the trip. In the amiable atmosphere, Adzhubei even suggested a child exchange. He offered to send his three sons, ranging in age from three to nine, to stay with the Salingers for a few months if Salinger would send his three children (Stephen; Marc, 13, and Suzanne, 10) to Russia to live with the Adzhubeis. Salinger said...
...Albania's Enver Hoxha, who is the other symbol of the Stalinist-Chinese line, appeared on posters all over the city. Billboards proclaimed "eternal friendship" for "heroic Albania," the country that Khrushchev seeks to put beyond the pale of decent Marxist society. Alluding to Son-in-Law Aleksei Adzhubei's Washington visit, the Red Chinese press implied that members of Khrushchev's own family were consorting with criminals-the "gangsterlike and reactionary" Kennedys...