Word: facings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While looking at the cover picture, I wondered where I had seen this charming face before. And all of a sudden, I knew: it reminded me of the face of Regelindis, a statue in the famous Cathedral of Naumburg Saale, now in East Germany, made by an unknown sculptor 700 years ago. Isn't it all there...
...Worse Than Stalin." Just what the U.S. can expect when the Geneva conference resumes next week-and how little the public Kozlov grin showed the true face of Soviet policy-was plain this week when New York's ex-Governor Averell Harriman, U.S. Ambassador to Moscow in 1943-46, reported, in LIFE and in memos to top Administration policymakers, on his talks with Premier Nikita Khrushchev (see FOREIGN NEWS). To Harriman, Khrushchev seemed to be dangerously cocky, dangerously ignorant of the West. Even after discounting Khrushchev's performance as tactical bluffing in part, Harriman found him "shocking, worse...
Chewing Firecrackers. Physically, Frol Kozlov is a sturdy specimen (5 ft. 8 in., 176 Ibs.) of Kremlin man. His hands are small and active, and so are his well-shod feet. He has a big, oval face, pale as a Siberian snowfall, and his nose is straight and narrow-bridged. When he smiles, a thin upper lip edges high to reveal a set of glistening teeth and a flash of gold, and little lines creep round his fleshy face and forehead like crinkled aluminum foil. His wide, short neck is well-proportioned to fit his wide-shouldered chest and broad...
...damned liar," exploded the Chief Justice of the United States at a Washington cocktail party last week. Heads turned amid the crush of Justices, Senators, Congressmen and newsmen to see Earl Warren face off against Earl Mazo, 40, New York Herald Tribune reporter and author of the notably fair-minded new biography, Richard Nixon, a Political and Personal Portrait (see BOOKS...
...midst of all the glad-handing in the supermarkets, the other face of Russia came through clear and cold last week from Moscow. It was the face of Nikita Khrushchev, confident, truculent, uncompromising, as he told W. Averell Harriman, U.S. wartime Ambassador to Russia, what he thought of things in a tone that Harriman-were he still ambassador-would have had to protest...