Word: khrushchev
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rumors & Plots. Inevitably, some wild rumors spread: an Arizona investor heard that President Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev had agreed to disarm; a Washington stockholder had a hot tip that the U.S. was about to invade Laos; others understood that Russia had dumped American securities in Switzerland to ruin the U.S. market. Just as inevitably, there was talk about some gigantic plot. In Los Angeles, retired Newspaperman John Gray, 87, who held on to his falling Southern California Edison stock, said: "The whole thing was started by people who wanted to discredit the President. They sold off huge chunks of stock...
Soon it was lunchtime, and hungry Pierre, refreshed by the sun and the river breeze, was more than ready. But the Premier wanted to go skeet shooting. "I always shoot first and miss so the guests won't feel bad," said Khrushchev genially. He was as good as his word-twice...
Then, quite by chance, Salinger scored one hit in six tries. Khrushchev's smile vanished. He grabbed the gun and blasted eight clay pigeons...
Caviar, Pel'meni and Palaver. Now lunch? No. "You have to walk for your lunch," said the 67-year-old Khrushchev as he led Salinger on a five-mile tour of the estate, meanwhile identifying, with an amateur horticulturist's pride, nearly every bush and tree along the way. "I never met a journalist who knew anything about agriculture," said Khrushchev. He showed Salinger a pond full of carp. "I guess they don't know the Chairman of the Party is here," grumbled the Party Chairman when no fish broke the surface. But at that...
...Party Chairman gloated: "They got the word." Finally lunch on the patio-caviar and pel'meni, a kind of Iron Curtain ravioli, flushed down with vodka, champagne and several Georgian wines-and, for hours after, a long conversation in which Khrushchev did most of the talking. The Soviet Premier enjoyed himself so hugely that he decided to do it again the following day and bring Mrs. Khrushchev and the kids, i.e., Son Sergei, Adzhubei and his wife Rada. Salinger had to pass up a planned engagement with Russian newsmen in Moscow...