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Hyland is helping Kissinger teach a graduate seminar at Georgetown University and write his much-publicized memoirs. The co-author of a 1968 book about the fall of Nikita Khrushchev, Hyland wants to do another about the Brezhnev era. He also has a plot in mind for a spy novel-about Soviet internal machinations and international intrigue, naturally. He has been researching it most of his adult life...
DIED. Roswell Garst, 79, Iowa farmer who played host to Nikita Khrushchev during the Soviet Premier's 1959 visit to the U.S.; of a heart ailment; in Carroll, Iowa. A pioneer in corn growing and cattle-feeding techniques, Garst arranged the first sale of U.S. corn seed to the Soviet Union-an act that helped ease East-West relations during the cold war. When Khrushchev visited Garst's Coon Rapids farm, he remarked, "I have seen today how the slaves of capitalism live, and they live pretty well." Describing himself as a sort of corn belt Brigitte Bardot...
...Yorker, Safire dropped out of Syracuse University to become a researcher for Columnist Tex McCrary, joined McCrary's public relations firm, and later struck out on his own. As press agent for a "typical American house" at a Moscow exhibition in 1959, he lured Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev into their now famous "kitchen debate...
These sentiments had become unpopular after then Party Chief Nikita Khrushchev in 1956 exposed Stalin's campaigns of mass terror against innocent Soviet citizens. In his celebrated de-Stalinization speech, Khrushchev cited the national anthem as an example of the dictator's passion for self-glorification, calling it a "clear deviation from Marxism-Leninism, debasing and belittling the role of the party." After that, the lyrics were never sung, although the tune was occasionally played on state occasions and at sports events...
Apart from Pavlov and his dogs, Soviet psychiatry is perhaps best known for the breakthrough discovery of "sluggish schizophrenia" accompanied by "paranoid delusions of reforming society." This is a mysterious ailment, usually requiring sudden incarceration, that often strikes political dissenters in the U.S.S.R. Since the late '50s, when Khrushchev announced that "there are no political prisoners, only persons of unsound mind," the Soviets have relied on tame psychiatrists to label troublemakers insane...