Word: nikita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Accompanying Secretary of State Dean Rusk on his Russian trip, Western newsmen last week got their first glimpse of Nikita Khrushchev's seaside hideaway. It made the Kennedy compound at Hyannis Port look like a Boy Scout bivouac...
...Camp Nikita nestles, half hidden, in a grove of rare prehistoric pine trees (each labeled with a metal plate) on the Pitsunda peninsula, 18 miles southeast of Gagra on the Black Sea. On three sides the estate is bordered by a vast state farm; the fourth side is a gentle, U-shaped bay. The beach is broad but rocky; to protect tender feet, boardwalks lead to the water's edge. Four piers, each with a cozy pavilion, jut out into the sea. Dotting the beach are cabanas, each outfitted with swimming trunks and soft towels. In one, presumably...
...back is a glassed-in gymnasium with Oriental rugs, where Rusk and Khrushchev played a brisk game of badminton. Medicine balls of assorted sizes lie around along with other muscle-building equipment, such as parallel bars, weight pulleys, climbing bars and a gymnastic horse. A corridor leads to Nikita's pride and joy: a 25-yd. swimming pool that can be heated to any temperature, or opened to the sea breeze by a pushbutton that controls enormous steel-and-glass walls. The roof of the pool is made of old bomber wings...
Everywhere there are signs of Nikita's three grandsons, the children of his daughter Rada and Izvestia Editor Aleksei Adzhubei. Toys and bikes are parked near flower beds. Aleksei Jr., a towheaded eight-year-old with hornrimmed glasses, zooms around in a green, gasoline-powered Cheetah Cub Car, an American-made miniature sports model that Dad picked up on a visit to the U.S. The seat of the Cheetah is covered with real leopard skin...
Little else daunts Lloyd's. It has covered Durante's nose, Dietrich's legs, Callas' voice and Nikita Khrushchev's safety on his 1959 visit to the U.S. Many fathers of newborn twins have collected from Lloyd's, and 20th Century-Fox recovered $2,000,000 from Lloyd's when Elizabeth Taylor's illness delayed the filming of Cleopatra. Ever alert to a little publicity when the price is right, Lloyd's even covered a Manchester cinema against its patrons' strain, wrench or rupture due to "excessive laughter...