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...Nikolaevna Podgornaya to Vienna." His daughter Natasha, 21, a shy Moscow medical student, was winning the Viennese in a way that crusty Podgorny never could, constantly outspacing her father in the daily papers, which delighted in chronicling all her visits to shops and operas. Papa Podgorny looks disconcertingly like Nikita Khrushchev, but Natasha, wearing sometimes dowdy Russian fashions and no makeup, had such a fresh nonpolitical charm for the Austrians that one government official observed: "She's the best public relations gimmick the Russians have...
...trading in German scientific manuscripts, he bought Pergamon in 1951 for $36,400, cajoled experts from all over the world into writing scientific tomes for him. Fluent in nine languages including Russian, he won a virtual corner on rights to Soviet scientific works by face-to-face salesmanship with Nikita Khrushchev. In the process, he also persuaded the Soviet ruler to pay Western authors royalties for their works published in Russia (in nonexportable rubles). "I told him," recalls Maxwell, "that if he didn't agree I would pirate the works of Soviet authors...
...quite understandable. Under Stalin, Georgia was more pampered than any other Soviet republic. It received disproportionately large allocations for farms, dams and fac tories, was permitted to preserve a good deal of private initiative at a time when the rest of Russia was being brutally forced into collectivization. After Nikita Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin in 1956, all of that changed. Georgians were dropped from power in Mos cow, and Khrushchev even tore up a few of Georgia's vineyards, replanting them with his favorite crop, corn...
...Nikita's successors, Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and Aleksei Kosygin, have taken a more sympathetic view of Stalin's historical role. The motive is not entirely clear; perhaps B. & K. are reluctant to let Red China take all the credit for Stalinism, or perhaps it has to do with inner Kremlin politics. In any case, they have not only looked the other way to avoid noticing the statues and paintings of Stalin that still adorn many a Georgian town and hotel, but they have even restored Stalin to the history books. Last week Brezhnev went a long step...
...classic brag designed to show that he alone dictated Soviet foreign policy, Nikita Khrushchev once declared: "When I tell Gromyko to take off his pants and sit on a cake of ice, he does it." Last week, after sitting on the ice cake through nearly three years of steadily worsening U.S. -Soviet relations, it looked as if Khrushchev's successors may have at last told Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to get off and hitch up. With the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. already moving toward the conclusion of a New York-to-Moscow air pact and an outer-space treaty...