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...with a fervor and furor unknown in the chronicle of nations. By last week the number of national leaders and heads of state at the United Nations 15th General Assembly meeting had grown to 26, and there were more to come. Spinning round them like a sputtering Sputnik was Nikita Khrushchev himself-tossing off dire threats in curbstone interviews, dishing out amiable insults, and defiling the decorum of the U.N. with desk-pounding, finger-waggling interruptions...
...Steelworkers' Chief Dave McDonald hopes to hand over the union vote. But the Pennsylvania Dutch are suspicious of Kennedy's Catholicism, and are registering in large numbers for the first time since 1928. The many Poles and Lithuanians warmly remember Dick Nixon's tough talk to Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow and his triumphal entry into Warsaw. Nixon ran better than Ike did in the primaries. Kennedy collected a large write-in vote, drew enthusiastic crowds while campaigning. Outlook: even, with Kennedy gaining...
Whenever men recall the 15th General Assembly of the United Nations in years to come, the image before their mind's eye would be that of Nikita Khrushchev, grinning like a delinquent adolescent as he pounded his desk and shouted. By his own doing, Khrushchev last week engraved himself upon the world's memory as a man indifferent to or contemptuous of civilized restraint and parliamentary procedures, a dictator deluded by the conviction that his vast power frees him from the obligation to show a decent respect for the opinions of mankind...
...moments more, pudgy Nikita Khrushchev ranted on. Then he stalked out of the Assembly, answering the applause of the Communist claque by applauding himself as he went. Behind him, he left the dazed Assembly to adjourn for the weekend...
...technicians, state visits and cultural exchanges. When Dwight Eisenhower presided in the Presidential Suite at the Waldorf Tower, his guests included Cabinet ministers from such countries as Nepal, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Ethiopia. When tiny Togo gave a cocktail party at the Plaza Hotel, who should pop in but pudgy Nikita Khrushchev, all smiles. Both dazed and gratified, Togo's Premier Sylvanus Olympio offered the understatement of the week by observing that Khrushchev is a "very calm man" to whom "you can say anything at all and he will not be angry...