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...thing of renting them for a few weeks or a few weekends. Since every Communist schoolboy knows that Marx and Lenin eliminated landlords as well as all other bloodsucking capitalists, this could not go on. Last week the city fathers of Leningrad decreed that anyone caught renting out his dacha would have his city quarters confiscated...
...right, headed the University of Moscow during the period when its skyscraper (39 stories) campus became the tallest structure in Europe east of the Eiffel Tower. With his wife, who was once one of his students, Nesmeyanov has a spacious apartment near the academy and a sizable dacha outside of town. Though a member of the party and a Deputy to the Supreme Soviet, he is anything but a dull-minded party hack. As a top member of the Soviet elite, he is friendly and debonair, with a squire's taste for boating and woodland walks, and an amateur...
...provocation-Nasser became the first non-Communist head of state ever to take the Red army's salute as guest of honor beside Khrushchev and Marshal Malinovsky atop the Lenin-Stalin mausoleum in Red Square. "Nasser Reviews Red Army," crowed the Cairo press. Khrushchev entertained him at his dacha, at the Bolshoi ballet, at a Lenin Stadium soccer match, at a whole round of banquets. Taking time off only to pray at Moscow's mosque, Nasser drank in the flattery with all the appetite for acclaim of the Middle East's biggest balcony-lover...
...Master. This man who bargained so confidently with the world had almost every day of his life to bargain with Stalin. Yet he talked freely, never seemed worried lest he commit an indiscretion, cracked irreverent jokes. In 1946 a group of leading officials were sitting in Mikoyan's dacha, a crenelated red brick atrocity created by a 19th century czarist sugar baron. Malenkov's wife began grumbling about how poor and scarce Soviet nylons were. Snapped Mikoyan: "Yes, my dear young lady, but we have plenty of portraits of Stalin...
...complained to a U.S. diplomat's wife that she did not go to the theater "as much as she would like to." The Khrushchevs have a downtown apartment in Moscow, a house in Lenin 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...