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...those eager to be convinced that Nikita Khrushchev is an evil, evil man Conquest Without War is recommended reading. The book is "an analytical anthology of the speeches, interviews and remarks of Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev," with a running commentary by two men who have read all of Mr. K's speeches and lived to tell about it. N. H. Mager and Jacques Katel are the two heroes, and they lay the Whole Truth on the line: Stalin's real name was Dzhugashvili; Russian farmers are short of fertilizer; the per capita income of the U.S.S.R. is only $310 a year...
Back in Moscow after three weeks in the U.S., Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko this week faces the job of reporting to his boss, Nikita Khrushchev, who in turn faces the task of mounting a big show before the forthcoming 22nd Soviet Communist Party Congress. Neither Gromyko nor Khrushchev have any real claim to success in Russia's effort to push the West out of Berlin...
...midsummer, the Soviet press was trumpeting claims that this year's harvest would be the greatest in Russian history. Then last month the breast beating began in earnest. In Soviet Kazakhstan, home of Nikita Khrushchev's ambitious virgin-lands project, Party Secretary Dinmukhamed Kunaev glumly confessed that grain production was down for the third successive year and would fall 36% short of plan. Kunaev-whose two predecessors were fired for farm failures-blamed the collective farmers for clumsy plowing, which permitted "a tremendous incursion of weeds," and for inept practices, which caused "heavy losses of grain...
...Nikita Khrushchev is having difficulties of his own. To achieve theoretically perfect socialism, Khrushchev knows that he must somehow persuade the peasant that it is more profitable to produce for the collective farm than for himself on private land. But Moscow dare not move just yet against the private system, which is clearly more efficient than the state farms...
...explodes Nikita Khrushchev. "We sent the astronaut Titov up there and he looked all over and didn't see it anywhere...