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...teacher, married Khrushchev in 1938. She is his second wife -First Wife Nadezhda died-and she raised Khrushchev's children. Three of the children will be with them in the U.S.: Julia, 38, a chemist, married to Kiev Opera Director Viktor Gonchar; Rada, 29, a biologist, married to Izvestia Editor Alexei Adzhubei; Sergei, 24, an electrical engineer. Khrushchev's son Leonid was a Red air force pilot killed early in World War II, and his daughter Lena, 21, is now a law student at Moscow University. Mostly back home, Mrs. Khrushchev keeps house in their trim villa, frequently...
...traditions" and "looked somehow conceited." Yet it was only a squeak, lost among the cheers. In five concerts last week, Bernstein took Moscow by storm. Composer Aram Khachaturian rushed to pump Bernstein's hand after performances, bubbled over with rave reviews in the government's official organ, Izvestia, and added special praise for Bernstein's Symphony No. 2 ("Age of Anxiety"). Said another top Russian composer, Dmitry Kabalevsky, after hearing Bernstein's rendition of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony: "Never have I heard a better interpretation...
...British government has made no effort to counter the anti-French and anti-German shrillness in Fleet Street. Said one British official : "The only effect of the popular press that we are worried about is the effect it has through requotation abroad." In a week when Moscow's Izvestia could draw on Fleet Street for propaganda material, these effects were perhaps worth more worry than British statesmen and publishers had yet given them...
...speech packed dynamite, but Nixon handled it with care-so much care that the official government newspaper, Izvestia, printed the full text. Along the way, with delicate handling...
Hall of Rabbits. By this time the Soviet press had thawed, and began running detailed accounts of the running debate between Nixon and Khrushchev. Both Pravda and Izvestia even carried photographs of Nixon. When Nixon got around to visiting Moscow's permanent U.S.S.R. Agricultural and Industrial Exhibition, just about everybody in Moscow seemed to know who he was. Walking around the monumental 500-acre exhibition - which even includes a Hall of Rabbits-Nixon shook more than a hundred hands, smiled at and was smiled at by thousands of friendly Russians...