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...Castro bombast. President Kennedy held a long meeting with the National Security Council, called the Joint Chiefs of Staff into session. Messages sped back and forth between Washington and Moscow-but outside the innermost circles of the U.S. and Soviet governments, no one knew what John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev were saying, and perhaps promising, to each other...
...Soviet Union, 1962 has been a year of economic ferment unmatched since the early days of industrialization and the forced collectivization of the '30s. In this atmosphere, Nikita Khrushchev this week opens the plenum of the party's Central Committee, an assortment of some 2,000 committee members and other party workers summoned from factories and fields across Russia. The meeting is two months overdue; Khrushchev delayed calling it because he had hoped that things would settle down-domestically, that...
...midst of the Cuban crisis, on Oct. 24, the day Soviet ships altered their course to avoid collision with the U.S. Navy, a U.S. businessman in Moscow was negotiating a trade deal with Soviet officials. Suddenly, their talks were interrupted by a phone call from the Kremlin: Nikita Khrushchev would be happy to receive William E. Knox, president of Westinghouse International Co. Knox had not asked for the interview, so Khrushchev, as he often does, was obviously trying to use an American visitor to pipe some of his views into the U.S. This week Knox revealed what was said...
...reception in the Palace of Congresses banquet hall, celebrating the 45th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution, Nikita Khrushchev presented the picture of a man bouncing back in great style from his own Cuban fiasco. In one of his most dazzling displays of personal diplomacy, he seemed relaxed, relieved and philosophical. "Who won and who lost?" he asked reporters. "Reason won. Mankind won because if there hadn't been reason, then there might not have been this reception, and there might not have been any elections in the U.S." Khrushchev even seemed to concede a U.S. missile lead...
...Muscovites swarmed out on the inaugural day to have a look. Most of the spectators came on foot; the few lucky ones who own cars excitedly opened them up to the maximum 80 m.p.h., unmindful of the washboard ripples and wavy indentations on the brand-new roadbed. Even Premier Nikita Khrushchev had his driver take him out for a run around the circuit in his sleek Chaika limousine. Acknowledging the cheers of bystanders, Khrushchev paused to congratulate officials, urged them to put up some restaurants and motels along the way. And, suggested Khrushchev in an afterthought, next time they build...