Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...U.S.S.R., in the land of that knock, was to be another sort of day. From the marble tomb of Lenin and Stalin, in the shadow of the Kremlin walls, traditionally comes a dictator's propaganda of arms and marching men-with a rattle of rockets in the background...
...Summit. The U.S., Britain and France fired off a joint note to the Kremlin opposing the U.S.S.R.'s attempt to divide the allies in pre-summit talks by seeing Western ambassadors separately, suggested that the U.S.S.R. see the ambassadors together and start work on a summit agenda...
...U.S.S.R. hardened its line on summit talks, too. One day last week the Kremlin's Khrushchev sent a bitter letter to President Eisenhower rejecting the U.S.'s latest offer to begin joint technical studies on disarmament, adding a new attack on nuclear tests "causing an ever-present and ever-mounting danger to the health and life of the people . . . from radiation hazards." President Eisenhower prodded right back that K. really ought to begin technical studies: "I am unhappy that valuable time is now being wasted...
...hardening Western line reflected suspicions of new unrest behind the Iron Curtain in general and within the Kremlin hierarchy in particular (see FOREIGN NEWS). The hardening line also reflected sober second thought from London to Seoul about what reducing the power of the free world's deterrent might mean...
Official Russia, with an eye cocked to the propaganda values of Cliburn's triumph, was just as ecstatic. At a Kremlin reception, squat Premier Nikita Khrushchev threw his arms about Van's beanpole, 6-ft.-4-in. frame, asked him why he was so tall. Grinned Van: "Because I'm from Texas." At a second Kremlin reception, Khrushchev bore down on Cliburn with hands outstretched, jovially introduced him to his son, daughter and granddaughter. When a waiter appeared with champagne, teetotaling Van shifted from one foot to another, murmured "I really don't care...