Word: nikita
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...weeks, the experts had been feverishly speculating over Khrushchev's possible heir. The favorite was handsome, hard-boiled Frol Kozlov, 54, No. 2 man in the party, whom Nikita had quietly singled out as his choice almost four years ago (TIME cover, July 13, 1959 ). But other experts excitedly pointed out that Kozlov was the only Kremlin leader absent from a major Moscow blowout last week marking the 93rd anniversary of Lenin's birth, thus concluded that Kozlov might be on the skids...
...basis of such barely visible clues, weary Kremlinologists stake their reputations. One of the best of the bunch, Britain's Edward Crankshaw, inspired one theory of Nikita's future with a frontpage story in London's Observer declaring that aging Khrushchev might announce his retirement "within two years" at the coming May 28 meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee. Who told him? "Well-informed Soviet sources," of course...
...evidence is on Crankshaw's side." But just in case it was, Griffith added: "You can argue either way; either Khrushchev is in trouble, or he's so secure in power that he can perfectly well afford to mention retiring." One daring Demonologist even suggested that Nikita himself gaily was spreading the rumors in order to rally more support...
...airport to greet him was his old pal of the Cuban missile crisis last fall, Anastas Mikoyan. Waiting for him in Moscow was Nikita Khrushchev, who promised to show him off to his comrades in a tumultuous May Day celebration this week...
...invasion, Russia's secret installation of missiles in Cuba) is one that is recognized as a hostile act carrying with it the risk of war. A covert operation, however, is one accepted as "a peacetime avenue of action which, when used, will not upset international apple carts." In Nikita Khrushchev's 1956 state visit to Britain aboard a Soviet heavy cruiser, British Frogman Lionel Crabb mysteriously died in Portsmouth harbor while trying to examine the cruiser's hull. Yet the state visit continued and official relations remained unruffled because London followed the code by calmly disowning...