Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Midway through the opening session of the 21st Communist Party Congress, the January sun broke through Moscow's leaden overcast. Bright rays streamed through the four-story windows of the Great Kremlin Hall and lit up the towering, 20-ft. statue of Lenin behind the platform and the short, round, balding figure at the speaker's stand below. "See!" cried Nikita Khrushchev, a talented ad-libber, thrusting aside his 46,000-word text. "Even the sun favors us. Nature smiles on the seven-year plan...
...Most Humble. If anything goes wrong, the engineers at Bhilai are in touch with the Kremlin by special radio within the hour. The Communists have guaranteed all the equipment they have sent, and they have trained 370 Indians in Russian mills. Soviet experts are under strict orders to let trainees handle as much machinery and press as many buttons as they wish. This does wonders for the confidence of young engineers, who say that in German factories they are treated like sightseers...
...Belgian diplomat, is filled with insights that ring true and glitters with revealing conversations with all sorts of citizens from peasants to party leaders. It also offers evidence that nationalism knows no distinction between political systems. Though an antiCommunist, the princess is firmly on the side of the Kremlin when she feels Russia's historic interests are involved. In writing of the bloody suppression of the Hungarian rebellion, she asks: "What else could the Soviet leaders...
...talks -"None at all. It is to our advantage both militarily and politically." The Killian scientists, though admitting their mistakes, passed the word that they could soon work out improvements in underground test-detection, were worried that publishing the new findings might look like bad faith with the Kremlin...
...hour, U.S.-style press conference within the ancient Kremlin* walls, Mikoyan reported to the Soviet press on his trip. In high good humor, he told of visiting the dacha of Cleveland Industrialist Cyrus Eaton, and of a luncheon at which he had pressed "my old friend" former Governor Averell Harriman to revisit Moscow now that Nelson Rockefeller had freed him to travel. Mikoyan paid tribute to American women -"they were very nice to us; they cannot hide their feelings as well as a man" -and recalled with evident relish his luncheon with those archvillains of Communist mythology, the bankers...