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When Glenn returned safely to earth, people everywhere heaved a vast sigh of relief, and tributes began pouring into the U.S. President Kennedy received messages of congratulation from more than 30 heads of state?including Nikita Khrushchev. The pleasure at Glenn's success was shared so widely that even Spain's Pablo Picasso, the Communists' peace-dove artist, was moved to say: "I am as proud of him as if he were my brother...
...press conference, President Kennedy replied: "It is a question which waits for us before the end of the road is reached, and it would be a very difficult one." Summitry: Inevitably, the talk about possible breakthroughs led toward proposals for person-to-person conversations at the summit. Nikita Khrushchev was already insisting that the Geneva disarmament meeting be turned into a summit session. The U.S. and Britain last week sent mild refusals, saying in effect: not until the delegates to the Geneva conference can report some evidence of progress toward a disarmament agreement...
Moscow last week seemed strangely quiet, becalmed by a news and diplomatic lull unparalleled in recent years. Virtually all the top Kremlin leaders were away from the capital, most of them probably down on the Black Sea coast talking business at Nikita Khrushchev's winter vacation spot. Hence the West's surprise when Moscow abruptly decided to heat up the Berlin crisis again with an ominous threat to the Allies' three air corridors that lead over Communist territory to the surrounded city...
With the exception of Walter Ulbricht's puppet state of East Germany, the most stubbornly Stalinist regime in the Soviet empire is run by Czechoslovakia's Antonin Novotny. Observing the form rather than the function of Nikita Khrushchev's destalinization drive, Novotny three months ago ordered the demolition of Prague's 6,000-ton Stalin statue and the transfer of dead Red Boss Klement Gottwald from a glass-topped coffin in a grandiose mausoleum to a less conspicuous resting place (TIME. Dec. 1, 1961). But this month, under the transparent banner of destalinization, Novotny carried...
...pressure and outlawed the party. Nevertheless, Roca managed to hold the party apparatus together in Havana, rose to power again with Castro. He led the Cuban delegation to last October's 22nd Communist Party Congress in Moscow, at a review got the place of honor next to Nikita Khrushchev atop Lenin's tomb...