Word: nikita
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...furor over Valya. Television commentators described her "cornflower blue eyes," and peasants showered her with bouquets. Overcome by her welcome, Valya broke into tears; it was the first time, Moscow assured the world, that anyone had seen her cry since she was a child. In a telephone conversation with Nikita Khrushchev, she admitted that she had bruised her nose in landing, said that the "people received me very cordially in the Russian manner with bread and salt." Foresightedly, she had brought along photographs of herself and passed them out to workers who greeted her, giving most of the pictures...
...Rada Adzhubei, 34, blonde, plump daughter of Nikita Khrushchev and wife of Izvestia's editor, turned up in Cairo as guest of Hoda, 16-year-old daughter of Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Rada told newsmen...
...Cardinal Montini, "an incomparable Pope," and much of the world, Catholic and non-Catholic, seemed to agree. Protestant and Orthodox churches held memorial services in his honor; Jewish religious leaders mourned; Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing announced that he would push for an immediate start on canonization proceedings. Nikita Khrushchev sent a warm message saying that John had "won the respect of peace-loving peoples"-the first time a Soviet leader has ever noticed the death of a Pope...
...official part of Fidel Castro's marathon visit to Moscow was over, and his beaming host had a few words of farewell before sending the honored guest off to southern Russia to loll in the sun for a while. With Castro standing beside him in Lenin Stadium, Nikita Khrushchev by turns praised Cuba's heroic "revolt against tyranny," pleaded for coexistence with the U.S., and angrily threatened nuclear war if the U.S. dared lay a hand on Cuba. He even rang in the American Declaration of Independence, quoting: "Whenever any form of government becomes destructive...
...last-minute breakdown in the Kremlin's usually well oiled machinery naturally touched off a wave of speculation. Could Nikita Khrushchev be having second thoughts over unleashing a wave of neo-Stalinism? Was the delay caused by the reported heart attack of the party's second secretary, Hard-Liner Frol Kozlov (TIME, May 10), whose tough hand might be needed on the spot to draft the orders for a cultural crackdown? Was it another ploy against Red China...