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...Nikita Khrushchev, to whose realistic appraisal of the totality of thermonuclear warfare and respect for human life you and I, as well as a billion others in the northern hemisphere, owe an expression of gratitude that we are still alive...
...hear all the talk, Cuba had once again become just one of those balmy-breezed Caribbean isles. In Moscow, Nikita Khrushchev happily declaimed that no-indeed-Cuba-was-not-a-Soviet-defeat. In Paris, at NATO's meetings, allied nations heaped congratulations upon U.S. State Secretary Dean Rusk for the firm American action. In Washington, the Kennedy Administration broke out with holiday grins and congratulations for itself. "Something," exulted one New Frontiersman, "has gone right...
...What sort of smear is this?" gasped Nikita Khrushchev as he strolled past rows of abstract paintings in a Moscow art gallery last week. "You cannot figure out whether they were painted by human hands or daubed by a donkey's tail!" With these words, the Kremlin's ruler doused hopes of Soviet painters that a new liberal era of artistic freedom was under way in Russia...
Approaching the painter of an avantgarde canvas titled Self-Portrait, Khrushchev asked, "Have you a mother?" "She's dead," stammered the artist. Replied Nikita: "She would die a second time if she saw your self-portrait." He spotted another objectionable work. "How much was paid for it?" inquired the Premier. Told the price was 3,000 rubles, he cried: "Deduct it from the salaries of those who approved the purchase...
Lamour himself now spends much of his time lecturing away from home or escorting distinguished visitors over dams and through fields and orchards. Nikita Khrushchev, after such a visit, paid the Midi man a cherished compliment. "The man who astonished me the most in all France," said he, "was Philippe Lamour. He's the only Frenchman who could stand...