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...busy winter on the social circuit. Since November, the comrades have held party congresses in Sofia and Budapest, Prague and Rome. This week the current season winds up in East Berlin with the most crucial meeting of them all, to be attended by none other than Party Favorite Nikita Khrushchev...
...social call. The pair disappeared to an isolated hunting lodge in northern Poland to confer over the grave issues on the Berlin agenda. One is West Berlin, where Allied troops are still entrenched more than four years after his ultimatum that the Allies get out. The other bone in Nikita's throat is Peking, for the Sino-Soviet quarrel has seemingly passed the point of no return (see box). As at the earlier congresses, Red China will have its own delegate in East Berlin ready to take the rostrum in Peking's defense. The stage...
About a month ago, soon after Nikita Khrushchev touched off a general crackdown on modern art (TIME, Dec. 14), several hundred Soviet artists and writers were abruptly summoned to the modern, glass-walled reception palace at Lenin Hills, on the outskirts of Moscow. Khrushchev himself, it seemed, wanted to hear what poets and painters thought of the party line on avant-garde art. The argument raged for five hours, far into the night, and included several remarkably frank exchanges with the Soviet ruler...
...first to speak up was aging Journalist-Propagandist Ilya Ehrenburg, 71. Defending a Cézanne-like blue and purple canvas called Female Nude, done by Russian Painter Robert Falk in 1922, which Art Critic Khrushchev had derided, Ehrenburg said: "You and I, Nikita Sergeevich, are getting on and haven't got much time left. But Falk's painting will live as long as there are lovers of beauty." Next, Abstract Sculptor Ernst Neizvesnty, whose work also had been attacked by Nikita, took the floor. "You may not like my work, Comrade Khrushchev," the sculptor said...
...Kremlin reception, Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev, 68, was presented with a gift designed by the members of the British correspondents' poker club in Moscow: a London-tailored tie of midnight-blue, decorated with golden cupolas symbolically inset with crossed sickles and quills. Nikita did not miss the point, added a touché of his own. "I am delighted," he said, "and I promise to wear it at my next press conference." His last press conference for Western newsmen: July...