Word: khrushchevism
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...their old, four-room apartment at No. 3 Granovsky Street, a section that compares unfavorably with, say, Manhattan's West Side around Amsterdam Avenue and 81st Street. But the social life should be interesting. Among other tenants officially housed in the building are two potentates purged by Khrushchev, former Premier Vyacheslav Molotov and Red Army Marshal Georgy Zhukov, as well as several comrades who gave K. the push, including Suslov and Kosygin...
Despite a glittering new job offer-deputy manager of Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, a party blat deep in Khrushchev's virgin lands-Aleksei decided to hang around. After all, Wife Rada still had her job as an editor of a Moscow scientific journal...
...obvious that Moscow's new leaders felt they could not immediately eliminate Khrushchev from the Moscow scene. His popularity in both the Communist world and the West would not permit such a move, even if the new regime had the stomach...
...that matter, was Angelo Litrico, a non-Communist tailor in Rome. Alas for Angelo, he was busy making two new suits for Khrushchev the day of his ouster. A single-breasted black and a double-breasted grey, custom-made for Nikita's projected visit to West Germany. The folks on No. 3 Granovsky Street may never get to see them, nor the tailor his money...
Boors may not always thrive under Communism, as Nikita Khrushchev so sadly learned-but boars do fine. So do bears, stags, hares, fallow deer, and every other Eastern European game species. As a result, scores of Western sportsmen last week were crossing the Iron Curtain for an annual shotgun wedding of East and West in which commissars pile up tourist dollars and jaded capitalist hunters bag big-game thrills...