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...last time a pair of Soviet cosmonauts went whirling around the world, they spent a lot of time on the radio-telephone exchanging compliments with "dear Nikita Sergeevich...
...first such tour, a little over a year ago, covered Western Europe and Russia, where Nikita Khrushchev spent seven hours talking to his American capitalist visitors. In the judgment of all concerned, the first trip was such a success that an encore, with another set of business participants and in another part of the world, became inevitable. Traveling with a TIME Inc. contingent headed by Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan and President James Linen, TIME'S News Tour of Asia included...
Clearly, such unsettling prospects would not even be countenanced in the Krernlin were it not for yet a grimmer vista already looming. That vista is a continuing turnabout in the Soviet growth rate, whose longtime double-figure performances led Nikita Khrushchev as recently as 1961 to assure the world that the U.S.S.R. would over take the U.S. by 1970 as the world's mightiest economy. It has been slowing down ever since. Last week Moscow reported that industrial output grew at 7.1%, a sizable figure for a mature economy but the lowest in Russia since 1946. And each year...
Bolshevichka and Mayak showed such a resounding improvement in efficiency-and such "deviationism"-that many Kremlinologists assumed they had contributed to Nikita's downfall...
...Ceiling. The tonnage norms particularly piqued Khrushchev's peasant common sense. Machine builders used eight-inch plates when four-inch plates would easily have done the job. "We make the heaviest machines in the world," sighed Nikita. His choice complaint, however, had to do with a Moscow chandelier factory: the more tons of chandeliers the plant produced, the more workers earned in bonuses. The chandeliers grew heavier and heavier, until they started pulling ceilings down. They fulfilled the plan, admitted Khrushchev angrily, "but who needs this plan? To whom does it give light...