Word: nikita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Neighbors. So where was Nikita? Moscow gossip placed him in a hospital at Rublevo, 15 miles from the capital, suffering from "blood pressure." However, Communists maintained that Nikita and Nina had retreated to their old, four-room apartment at No. 3 Granovsky Street, a section that compares unfavorably with, say, Manhattan's West Side around Amsterdam Avenue and 81st Street. But the social life should be interesting. Among other tenants officially housed in the building are two potentates purged by Khrushchev, former Premier Vyacheslav Molotov and Red Army Marshal Georgy Zhukov, as well as several comrades who gave...
According to the Italians, Nikita has been granted a monthly pension of 1,000 rubles ($1,111 at the official exchange rate). Not so lucky was Son-in-Law Adzhubei, who had been stripped of his influential job as Izvestia's editor...
Communists the world over were still tut-tutting over Nikita's great fall...
...that matter, was Angelo Litrico, a non-Communist tailor in Rome. Alas for Angelo, he was busy making two new suits for Khrushchev the day of his ouster. A single-breasted black and a double-breasted grey, custom-made for Nikita's projected visit to West Germany. The folks on No. 3 Granovsky Street may never get to see them, nor the tailor his money...
Boors may not always thrive under Communism, as Nikita Khrushchev so sadly learned-but boars do fine. So do bears, stags, hares, fallow deer, and every other Eastern European game species. As a result, scores of Western sportsmen last week were crossing the Iron Curtain for an annual shotgun wedding of East and West in which commissars pile up tourist dollars and jaded capitalist hunters bag big-game thrills...