Word: dacha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delays. Correspondents found that the only sure way to get copy back home was by telephone: the Associated Press held one circuit seven hours-at $3 a minute, or $1,260 worth-to assure prompt coverage of Nixon's long talk with Khrushchev at the Premier's dacha outside Moscow...
...epic public give-and-take, at long diplomatic dinners and in late evening dacha talks, the Vice President of the U.S. spent more time with the Boss of the Soviet Union last week than any other American statesman in cold-war history. Around the world the rustlings and whisperings of regular diplomacy all but came to a halt while the chancelleries cocked their ears toward Moscow. In Moscow, oddly enough, there were no negotiations at all in the orthodox diplomatic sense, but there were loud, serious, deadly earnest debates about the resources and strengths of the West and Communism...
...surprise gesture of friendliness, Khrushchev invited the Nixons, Milton Eisenhower and Ambassador Thompson to spend that night at his cream-colored dacha 20 miles outside Moscow. The invitation was promptly accepted...
...dacha next day, Nixon and Khrushchev issued a joint statement protesting that their exchange at the U.S. exhibition, while "frank," was not "belligerent." Then Khrushchev took his guests for a ride on the Moscow River in a 25-ft. motor boat. Eight times Khrushchev had the boat stopped so that he and Nixon could talk to groups of bathers on the beaches along the river, and each time, with broken-record repetition, the same thing happened. Khrushchev would point out the bathers to Nixon as "captive people"; they would yell "nyet, nyet," and Khrushchev would grin, nudge Nixon...
...Party Congress as a maniac who had deported, tortured and killed by the millions. Describing Stalin's last days, in the first such account ever given a Westerner, Khrushchev told Harriman that for three days he, Beria, Bulganin and Malenkov had kept their vigil at Stalin's dacha while the great man lay in a final coma. Suddenly. Stalin awoke, and weakly pointing to a picture of a little girl feeding a lamb, "indicated by his gesture that now he was as helpless as the lamb. A few minutes later he died. I wept," said Khrushchev. "After...