Word: aleksei
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NIKOLAI PODGORNY, 59, another Ukrainian, 4½ years ago ousted an early Khrushchev favorite, hard-boiled Fellow Ukrainian Aleksei Kirichenko, as party boss in Khrushchev's former fiefdom. Early last year Khrushchev delivered a scorching assault against Podgorny for having blamed bad weather for poor corn yields ("The crop was pilfered, stolen, and yet you say weather prevented growing a good harvest?"). But by the time of the next harvest, Podgorny could report better news. With a smile, he told Khrushchev at the October congress that the Ukraine had doubled its sale of grain to the state...
...utmost 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...
...novelist, born Aleksei Peshkov, had taken the pen name for the same reason...
...smiling at one 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...
...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...