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...summitry-decided to go to Vienna to meet Nikita Khrushchev. He hoped, he said, to size up Khrushchev and to warn him against miscalculating U.S. determination in the cold war. He knew beforehand that Khrushchev was tough-but only at Vienna did he discover how tough. "The difficulty of reaching accord was dramatized in those two days," he says today. There was no shouting or shoe banging, but the meeting was grim. At one point Kennedy noted a medal on Khrushchev's chest and asked what it was. When Khrushchev explained that it was for the Lenin Peace Prize...
...said: "There would be hell in the world if this happened." He also temporized on the question of Red China, hedged on whether he would demand that the Red Chinese withdraw from the 14,000 square miles of Indian territory that they occupy. Nehru publicly thanked Nikita Khrushchev for his understanding of the "motives and ideas" behind the Indian invasion, said that he deplored the Western condemnation of the action. "I do not like this division of opinion-to put it very crudely, white and black," he said. "It is a bad sign, but there it is. I have been...
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...Lost Argument. India's victory was hailed by the Afro-Asians and the Communists. From Russia, Nikita Khrushchev cabled Nehru his approval. Momentarily abandoning its border feud with India. Red China announced its "resolute support." No word of protest was heard in India. Draped in a cloak of injured innocence, the Indian press charged that Britain in Suez behaved far worse than India; conveniently forgotten was the fact that Britain bowed to a U.N. cease fire and withdrew from the territory it had taken. The Times of India voiced the surprise of Indian diplomats that the Portuguese authorities...
...While Nikita Khrushchev holds out visions of a consumer's paradise just around the corner of the next Seven Year Plan, a band of ingenious entrepreneurs are doing their individual best to make the dream come true a little sooner. They are the Soviet citizens-no one can tell how many-who operate private businesses for private profit, often dodging the police for years before they are caught. Operators of two of the cleverest syndicates were in the hands of the law last week, charged with running a textile empire and lipstick plant with profits that ran into...