Word: kremlins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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House. A surprise guest was Khrushchev's wife Nadezhda, who, like most Kremlin wives, usually stays offstage. Speaking serviceable English, she chatted amiably with Pat Nixon, who had been spending her days visiting orphanages and hospitals...
...back to the U.S. In a sense, Khrushchev had himself to blame for Nixon's decision to visit Poland. Nixon had asked for permission to fly across Siberia and visit the Pacific port of Vladivostok, returning to the U.S. by way of Alaska, but the Kremlin vetoed that plan. After that, Nixon decided to accept a longstanding offer from the government of Communist Chief Wladyslaw Gomulka to visit Poland...
...block wedge of Moscow real estate where Vice President Nixon and Soviet Premier Khrushchev held their spectacular verbal fencing matches last week is a wonder of U.S. planning, talent and do-it-yourself ingenuity. Conceived four years ago, the American exhibition in Moscow was not finally approved by the Kremlin until last December, and the fact that it was ready to open on schedule marked some sort of speed record for major international expositions...
...wealthy California manufacturer (paints and chemicals), former Assistant Secretary of Commerce and onetime president of the National Association of Manufacturers, the project was one unmitigated migraine. On top of his breakneck schedule and a niggardly allowance ($3,600,000) from Washington, he met daily opposition from all sides. The Kremlin vetoed the plan to distribute free Coty lipsticks. President Eisenhower's doubts about the top-heavily modern art show (TIME, July 13) prompted some changes. The Russians haggled like capitalistic stockbrokers over the rent...
Tucker explained that the Kremlin is in the process of working out a plan to reorganize the educational system. The plan is outlined in a law passed last December, entitled "On the Strength of the Connection of School and Life in the USSR." Tucker said that the word "life" refers to the life of material production...