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...Communist lexicon, Nikita Khrushchev is clearly the apostle and chief promoter of peaceful coexistence and the calculated thaw. On the 90th anniversary of Lenin's birth last week, when "the Lenin of today" was off vacationing on the Black Sea coast, the official mouthpiece was Finnish-born Presidium Member Otto Kuusinen, 78, the hardbitten old Bolshevik who was one of Lenin's commissars in the revolution's early days. Kuusinen told an audience of some 20,000 at Moscow's Lenin Central Stadium that "war would be insane" with mankind's new destructive weapons...
...reserved for artists and intellectuals. The procession that came was impressive-birdlike Igor Stravinsky, rehearsing his Firebird in jeans he insisted on calling "pantaloons"; the leonine head of Albert Schweitzer bowed over a keyboard; ebullient Mortimer Adler conducting a rapid-fire philosophical discussion while sweating in a sauna (Finnish bath). "The Aspen idea," said Paepcke, "is the cross-fertilization of men's minds...
...Manhattan last week, 17 Russians toured Chinatown and peered at Easter gowns in Fifth Avenue shopwindows. As cherry blossoms bloomed in Washington, 20 Japanese climbed out of their touring bus to snap pictures. Along Chicago's State Street wandered 72 curious Finnish businessmen. (Their hotel flew Finnish flags, provided Finnish maids for room service.) The Russians, the Japanese and the Finns are part of a new foreign invasion. They may not be seeing America first, but they are seeing it at last...
Swedes wryly joke that hardened Finnish criminals have been moving across the border, finding that crime pays better in Sweden. One group of hobby-loving prisoners put together a radio transmitter, and were stopped only when Stockholm police reported hearing dirty ditties being broadcast on the wrong wave length-their own. Another prisoner was held to have carried visitors' day liberties too far. Giving the prison's street address, he had advertised for cuties whom he photographed in the nude for "art" pictures to sell to fellow inmates...
...astonished Norwegian Foreign Office hurriedly arranged a program for Mikoyan, and wondered what important object the wily Anastas had in mind. In his first speech in Norway, Mikoyan declared that the Soviet Union had never attacked any country (Finnish, Latvian, Estonian and Lithuanian papers, please copy) and would not attack Norway either. Turning to Prime Minister Gerhardsen, he asked: "Can you promise me the same?" Said one stunned Norwegian: "Has Mikoyan come here simply to get a promise that Norway will not attack the Soviet Union...