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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What Nikita Khrushchev really saw of the U.S. was next to nothing. By his own order, he bypassed such monuments to U.S. achievement as the Tennessee Valley Authority, and by his own disinterest, he did not look upon the unparalleled industrial complex between Washington and New York City. Instead, he set his own course through the serried ranks of U.S. diplomats, businessmen, civic brasshats and movie actresses, as if in search of more Marxist cliches to take home. Even when his hosts drove him through towns with tall white steeples, through prosperous farms, friendly campuses and towering skyscrapers, he barely...
...lead his party aboard the train to Manhattan. There, on a brisk, clear day among the skyscrapers, the tour began to lose its jovial bounciness. As a safety precaution, he got the official greeting in the dirty, cavenious incoming baggage room at Pennsylvania Station. For the next 45 hours, his hosts seemed to spend most of their energy trying to protect him from harm...
...agreed that he had done a good job on his short tour, that his personal competence was not in question, but that the overriding consideration was a happy Iceland, where U.S. troops and the somewhat diffident Icelanders could get along together. Moreover, with the Communists offering a challenge in next October's Icelandic elections, State decided that General Pritchard was expendable. In turn, the Air Force handed him a juicy new assignment: commander of the New York Air Defense Sector...
...Orgeron, 47, said sheepishly that he had just come to town and did not know his address, did not even have Dusty's report card or health certificate. He inquired persistently but politely about the location of the second-grade classrooms, then left quietly, promising to come back next day with the documents...
Explained Old Pro (37) Crossfield later: the flight was simply a test of the X-15's systems. "We didn't try to get any performance out of it-although it performed slightly better than expected." Ahead: still more tests under power, and, perhaps next year, the first trip of the X-15 into black space...