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...their own homes because of the acute housing shortage. By 1960, 31% of all living space in Soviet cities was privately owned. But building materials were in such short supply that last year Khrushchev's new Communist Party program hinted at a reversal of the home-building policy. Nikita's Utopian blue print suggested that the imminent transition from socialism to Communism would make privately owned homes unnecessary. Another reason for the switch: the regime has been increasingly plagued by embezzling public servants who found a convenient outlet for spending their hoarded rubles on town houses and country...
...wait six weeks for a visa, at last entered Albania on a once-a-week Hungarian flight from Budapest to have a look at the country whose regime was described as "more bloodthirsty and retrograde than that of the czars" by no less a connoisseur than Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev...
...days after the disastrous U-2 affair, Nikita Khrushchev spotted U.S. Ambassador Llewellyn E. Thompson at a diplomatic reception in Moscow. The Soviet Premier strode up to Thompson, then deliberately stepped on his foot. "That is what your President did to me," said Khrushchev. A crowd moved in to watch the hostility and perhaps to join in. "Stop!" shouted Khrushchev. "It is not the work of this man. I like...
...Nikita Khrushchev got a lot of free space in the Western press three weeks ago with a variation on a familiar theme-replacing Western troops in West Berlin with garrisons from smaller nations. The New York Times printed half a page of excerpts from his 2½-hour speech, and most other papers carried news stories of the proposal. But that apparently was not enough to satisfy the Soviet Premier. Last week the full 14,000 words of Khrushchev's speech appeared in two-and three-page display ads in the New York Herald Tribune, Kansas City Star, Hearst...
...Kremlin conference room, Nikita Khrushchev casually tossed off a comment that startled a delegation of 14 visiting U.S. editors. The Soviet Union, he said, had developed an anti-missile missile so unerringly accurate that it can "hit a fly in outer space." There were a few scare headlines in the U.S., but intelligence sources voiced strong doubt that Khrushchev's flyswatter really existed. Last week the U.S. answered his boast with a well-timed rejoinder. On Kwajalein atoll in the mid-Pacific, a winged Nike-Zeus missile lurched skyward atop a shaft of flame, soared more than...