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...Nikita Khrushchev sent a treasure-trove of American goods to his ship and flew home to Moscow. The Pittsburgh Pirates carried the World Series into history...
...Small. As the week began, the uncommitted scarcely realized how important they had become. Then Nikita Khrushchev strode to the podium to roar Dag Hammarskjold into submission. Hammarskjold, cried Khrushchev, had tried to justify "the bloody crimes perpetrated against the Congolese people by the colonialists and their stooges. It is not proper for a man who has flouted elementary justice to hold such an important post as that of Secretary-General." Khrushchev demanded that Hammarskjold "muster up enough courage to resign...
...post during the term of my office as a servant of the organization in the interests of all those other nations, as long as they wish me to do so." All across the big semicircle, delegates, white, black and brown, rose in a standing ovation. In their midst, Nikita Khrushchev derisively pounded his thick fists on his desk...
...small nations tested their uncertain new strength at the U.N. last week, the two giants reacted in their separate ways. The U.S. was seen but not often heard. Russia's Nikita Khrushchev was both. Determined to be one of the boys, he was all over the place, to the neutrals' mingled amazement and annoyance...
...snow were out of order for lack of spare parts, grumbled Radio Moscow. Millions of bushels of cut grain were still lying out in the open because thousands of "volunteer" workers had quit in disgust with low wages and Kazakhstan's primitive living conditions. In a similar situation Nikita Khrushchev in January fired Kazakhstan's party secretary; the new fellow may soon...