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...ambassador to Moscow from 1957 to 1962, Thompson was able to work more closely with Soviet leaders than any other postwar U.S. envoy. His firsthand knowledge of Nikita Khrushchev's mind helped Thompson to divine Moscow's reactions throughout the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. He has been the State Department's chief resident negotiator with the Russians ever since...
...story of considerable interest, however. He believes that Nikita...
Brown's public image hardly fits the diplomatic pattern. Ebullient and explosive, he managed to so rile Nikita Khrushchev during a Labor Party dinner in London a few years ago that the Soviet leader ended up praising the capitalistic Tories as by far the easier of the two British parties to get along with. On the evening of President Kennedy's assassination, Brown emoted tearfully on a London television show about his friendship with Jack-and got a bad press for letting down the stiff upper lip in public. But those who know Brown better testify that...
...have professed to divine signs that the 62-year-old Premier might be in failing health and weary of the job. Instead, Kosygin was unanimously re-elected by the delegates on the first day, along with some of the other members of the collective leadership that took over from Nikita Khrushchev almost two years ago: among them President Nikolai Podgorny and First Deputy Premiers Kyrill Mazurov and Dmitry Poliansky...
...institutes of higher learning. The number of high school graduates is more than 2,700,000, twice last year's record total. In part, the sudden increase reflects the coming to maturity of a postwar baby crop, but much of it is due to one of Nikita Khrushchev's colossal mistakes. In 1958 he decreed that high school students must work two days a week in factories, which meant adding an eleventh year to the curriculum. Factory managers complained that the students were a liability not an asset. So two years ago, Russia scrapped the system and went...