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When Bohlen left Moscow in 1957, Khrushchev said to him, "We like competent ambassadors who know how to give correct appraisals to their government." Premier Bulganin was a little less reserved. "We do not understand why they are taking you from us," he complained...
While in the Middle East, he came to know Nasser well, and predicted -a year before it happened-that the colonel would emerge as the real power in Egypt. Bell was at Belgrade's Zemun Airport to witness the arrival of Russia's Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin; he reported the visit that drew world attention to Mr. K., vodka for vodka. Later, when Khrushchev made the sensational but top-secret Kremlin speech that demolished Stalin, Bell was in Moscow and got wind of it. During two tours of duty in Bonn, he covered the Berlin Wall...
...first acts was to propose the nationalization of steel, and if he keeps pushing such controversial legislation, he may not be around for too long. In Moscow, a new B. & K. diarchy is in power, but unless Brezhnev and Kosygin manage to work in tandem more effectively than Bulganin and Khrushchev did, an internal power struggle may grip Russia and becloud efforts for an East-West detente. Peking's atomic blast may make it more difficult than ever for the U.S. to keep nations along the periphery of Red China from falling under its influence. In Latin America, Johnson...
...common scold. In his lighter moments, he was engagingly frank. With half a glass of beer inside him, he was asked at an after-dinner party whether the Russians had ever solved their succession problem. Khrushchev's response was a jocular account of the 1957 at tempt by Bulganin, Molotov, Malenkov and Kaganovich to depose him. "Bulganin," said Khrushchev, "was and is a very good bookkeeper. He was even being a bookkeeper during the anti-party revolt. He thought that four was bigger than seven. He knows better now." Malenkov was "a weak man who could not make decisions...
Many other Russian cover subjects were liquidated, physically or politically-Beria, Bulganin, Malenkov, Molotov-after the emergence of Nikita Khrushchev. He made his first appearance on TIME'S cover a few months after Stalin's death, as head of the Economic Reform Program, again-and still-struggling with the perennially sagging Soviet economy. Soviet Russia is always ready to create heroes, as in the case of the cosmonauts, and always ready to forget them-if not physically remove them from their tombs. One of TIME'S Russia covers presented famed Shock Worker Alexis Stakhanov...