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...after studying a few years at Moscow's industrial academy and rising steadily in the party hierarchy, Khrushchev became party leader of Moscow. He survived the party purges of the 1930s, he believed, because Stalin's second wife, Nadezhda Sergeyevna Alliluyeva, was impressed by him and recommended him to her husband. "I've often asked myself, how was I spared?" Khrushchev later said. "I think part of the answer is that Nadya's reports helped determine Stalin's attitude toward me. I call it my lucky lottery ticket. Right up to the last...
Born. To Svetlana Alliluyeva Peters, 45, Joseph Stalin's only daughter, and William Wesley Peters, 58, Architect Frank Lloyd Wright's longtime assistant and now vice president of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation: a daughter; in San Rafael, Calif. Name: Olga. "This pretty girl makes another strong link between this country and myself," said Mrs. Peters, whose two grown children by previous marriages still live in the Soviet Union...
Lucky Ticket. Yet Khrushchev's own career skyrocketed, and by 1934 he was party leader of Moscow. One reason: Stalin's second wife, Nadezhda Sergeyevna Alliluyeva, who had been a fellow student at the Industrial Academy, was impressed by Khrushchev and told her husband about him. "Nadya," mother of Svetlana Alliluyeva, committed suicide in 1932. But her judgment of Khrushchev endured in Stalin's mind, a stroke of luck that the old Soviet leader readily acknowledges. In the years that followed, he says, "I stayed alive while most of my contemporaries, my classmates at the academy, lost...
...wants to be is Mrs. William Wesley Peters, housewife. That may not seem much to ask, but when the seeker of anonymity is the former Svetlana Alliluyeva, daughter of Joseph Stalin, the request takes on unusual proportions. At home in Spring Green, Wis., the bride of four months, whose husband is vice president of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, still cannot escape pesky reporters requesting interviews. Mrs. Peters patiently insists that she is not planning to write a third book. "I am planning to do nothing except be a good wife to my husband. That is a full-time...
Married. Svetlana Alliluyeva, 44, Josef Stalin's only daughter, who astonished the world by defecting to the U.S. in 1967; and William Wesley Peters, 57, architect and vice president of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, whom she met less than a month ago while visiting the foundation; in a Quaker ceremony near Phoenix, Ariz...