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...Leningrad, the nine Governors-sat down to a caviar-to-strawberries feast hosted by the city's top Red, drank toasts to peace, friendship, good relations, mutual understanding, culture, trade, U.S. youth, Soviet youth, U.S. women and Soviet women, broke out in I've Been Workin' on the Railroad and Auld Lang Syne. And in Moscow, Dennis Michael O'Connor, 26, U.S. exchange student at Moscow University, and Mary Louise McMahon, 22, lately arrived from Tenafly, N.J., got married in the city's only Roman Catholic Church. Why get married in the U.S.S.R.? Explained...
...with only a young interpreter bobbing along between them. Kozlov, who speaks no English, boomed out his small talk, and the interpreter translated softly. Ike small-talked back as they headed for the escalator. He recalled his visit to Russia after V-E day in 1945. "We visited the Leningrad trenches, and then we visited the house of a very famous Russian poet -but I forgot his name." "Pushkin?" offered the interpreter. "Yes, Pushkin," recalled Ike. The President was guided to the exhibit's centerpiece, a display of the shiny models of the three Russian Sputniks and a replica...
...their land but had to piece out their living by working at a nearby textile factory. At 15, Frol went to work in the textile plant and at 18 became a member of the Communist Party, which sent him off to a worker's school and later to Leningrad Polytechnic Institute. Engineer Kozlov served for a time as foreman in a steel plant, and in 1939 his record catapulted him into the job of party secretary of his plant, and in 1944 he was working for the party's Central Committee in Moscow...
...Case." Kozlov's climb to the big time paralleled the infamous purges that constituted the so-called "Leningrad Case" of 1948-49, when Stalin Protege Georgy Malenkov directed liquidation of Central Committee Secretary Andrei Zhdanov. When the pall lifted, there, mysteriously, was Frol Kozlov, party leader of the city. Good Communist Kozlov kept his nose clean, and in 1953 First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev did him the honor of traveling all the way to Leningrad to install Kozlov as party leader for all of Leningrad region...
When Kozlov was asked to comment on anti-Semitism in the U.S.S.R., Menshikov again could only smile weakly. Kozlov, who gained a reputation as an anti-Semite during the "doctors' plot," seemed offended. "I have many friends of Jewish nationality," said he. Among them: a Leningrad rabbi, various Soviet officials, the wife of "President Voroshilov who unfortunately died recently. God give it that the Jews should live such a life in any other country as in the Soviet Union. They live better in the Soviet Union than in Israel." Just then the pilot sent back word that too many...