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...free world. The Soviet policy of smiles was picking up mileage and momentum by the minute, relaxing freedom's watchfulness, exacerbating the free world's differences, as the urgency of fear was removed. In suburban Hyattsville, Md., First Secretary Alexander Zinchuk of the Soviet embassy made a jovial pitch for a U.S.-Russian bridge across the Bering Strait so man could ride by road and rail from Hyattsville to the Kremlin. Back home in the U.S.S.R. Nikita Khrushchev feted Premier Guy Mollet of France as the "flying swallow of peace." Along with the smiles, the Communists offered what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Perils of Peace | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

...ideas. Many a shrewd Communist has been able to plant his ideas in fertile soil. With the battle all but lost in this vital salient, Thailand's Chinese anti-Communists last month sent a call for help to Formosa. Their answer came in the form of a fat, jovial, 43-year-old music teacher named Chu Yung-chen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THAILAND: The Jolly Music Master | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

Khrushchev had also destroyed the personal image of himself as the jovial, rough, goodhearted peasant. "The man's impossible," snapped Nye Bevan. "A fanatical Communist- very different from Malenkov," said Gaitskell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A QUIET LITTLE DINNER WITH KHRUSHCHEV | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

Died. B. A. (for Benjamin Albert) Rolfe, 76, jovial maestro (1928-31) of radio's original Lucky Strike dance orchestra; of cancer; in Mansfield, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 7, 1956 | 5/7/1956 | See Source »

...lounge suits" in deference to their guests' limited wardrobe. B. & K. came in voluminous gabardine topcoats over grey suits. But the hit of the evening was Sir Winston Churchill, pink and beaming at the old familiar door, waving a cigar and giving a V sign. Bulganin gave a jovial speech in which he obliquely compared Khrushchev to Churchill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE KREMLIN: Courtiers B. & K. | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

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