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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coming after the U.S.'s Captive Nations Week proclamation and the coolish reception that Khrushchev got on his recent visit to Poland, a warm Polish welcome for Nixon would be a notable wind-up for a most notable cold-war journey...
...Road to Ruin." Meany and his union brass got a better reception from Mr. Sam's No. 1 House boy, Democratic Floor Leader John McCormack of Massachusetts. McCormack (67) is ambitious to succeed Mr. Sam (77) as House Speaker, is wary of rising competition from Missouri's youthful (43) Richard Boiling, who has been Mr. Sam's quarterback on labor-bill strategy. McCormack covertly began to work for Meany. Good Democrats should never split on labor issues, he soothingly told the Rayburn loyalists on the committee, and "Don't follow the Speaker down this road...
...stubbornly resistant are Polish peasants to collectivization that even now, after three years of Gomulka, cooperative farms total less than 1% of the nation's arable land. Would Khrushchev spoil everything with one of his off-the-cob remarks? Gomulka wanted no independent witnesses present when Nikita got to talking about agriculture...
Lesson in Etiquette. The Polish tour ended without any serious mishap for Khrushchev, but nonetheless, as the New York Times Correspondent A. M. Rosenthal reported, "Khrushchev usually got ten seconds of applause in exchange for about fifty minutes of speech...
...playful children, eager crowds, civic receptions, and toasts in vin d'honneur. Jumbo seemed to enjoy the march, placidly munching apples, dancing and playing the mouth organ for fascinated audiences, while trudging along at a steady pace of about 3 m.p.h. After a skittish first two nights, she got her normal nightly quota of four hours' sleep...