Word: adzhubeis
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...airports, hotels and along principal streets. The State Department gulped at the word from Moscow that the size of the Khrushchev official party had reached almost 100, headed up by his wife, Nina, sixtyish; two daughters, Julia, 38, and Rada, 29: son Sergei, 24; and son-in-law, Aleksei Adzhubei. Then State turned to making arrangements for some 300 U.S. newsmen who have applied to follow the grand tour...
...editors have discreetly hinted recently that the two dailies are incredible bores (TIME, June 1). Last week brought a sign that the government had at last decided to print some news that is fit to be read. Named as the new managing editor of Izvestia: round-cheeked Aleksei I. Adzhubei, garrulous and gregarious as his father-in-law, who happens to be Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev...
...Adzhubei's appointment is no nepotistic caper. At 34 he is one of Russia's most talented journalists; as editor, he pumped readability into Komsomolskaya Pravda, the Communist youth organ, by ordering firsthand factual reporting on the Russian scene, crusading against erring officials (e.g., a garage manager who had wrongly fired a worker). He helped to push Komsomolskaya Pravda's circulation from 1.500,000 five years...
During a tour of the U.S. in 1955, Adzhubei refused to answer tough questions from American newsmen about Russia, but generally radiated good will, quipped as he made a small wager at a Reno gambling table: "I probably shouldn't do this-I might make a million." (He didn't.) As editorial boss of Izvestia (circ. 1,800,000). Adzhubei may some day give the monolithic Pravda (5,560,000) a run for its kopecks...
...Hills of the boxy type favored by Nikita, nicknamed a Khrushchobka by builders, a dacha in the Crimea. In Moscow also are his son and two daughters, Nadia and Rada (of whom he once jokingly said, "They keep me from paying taxes"): one daughter married to roly-poly Alexei Adzhubei, editor of Komsomolskaya Pravda, organ of the young Communists; the other talked about all over Moscow for having stolen the handsome boy friend of a famous actress. There is also the legend of a hero son killed at Stalingrad...