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...issue thus far in the campaign, Pollster George Gallup indicated last week. Last year Democrat Jack Kennedy led Republican Richard Nixon by a wide 61% to 39% in July. Nixon came back to capture a 51 to 49 edge in September, just after his finger-wagging "kitchen debate" with Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow. Since then, the two have seesawed back and forth, a few points apart. Gallup's latest poll showed Kennedy leading 52 to 48 in surveys conducted just after the blowup of President Eisenhower's trip to Japan. Said Gallup: "The outcome next fall may well...
Grotesquely mixing buffoonery with terror, Nikita Khrushchev waddled on last week through the lovely little country that is Austria. At his side, wherever he went, was Austria's embarrassed Chancellor Julius Raab. The favorite story in Vienna's cafés: one of Khrushchev's bodyguards asked an Austrian why Raab looked so gloomy. Replied the Austrian: "Too much friendship can be sickening...
Though Raab remained diplomatically silent through Nikita's tirades, the Austrian people made their feelings plain. Most boycotted Khrushchev's public appearances; special Masses were held for the "silent Church" behind the Iron Curtain. "A demagogue is using Austria as a base for propaganda rockets," cried the Vienna daily Express...
...itself from the tirades. But Khrushchev could not be stopped. At a final press conference, he warned that if the West German Bundestag held its annual symbolic meeting in Berlin this fall as planned, he might seize the occasion to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany. Chortled Nikita: "This would mean that all members of the Parliament would have to ask for visas from the East German government to get back home...
...Nikita and party climbed into an air-conditioned bus with radiotelephone, television set, and bar for a tour of the green Austrian countryside, no good will began to blossom. Though Khrushchev has no reported heart condition (but is eminently qualified at a hefty 66 years old), the Russians called off a night on 12,461-ft. Gross Glockner, Austria's highest mountain, for unexplained "medical reasons." And in Vienna one old lady gave the popular verdict: "He's getting a lot less attention than that good-looking Shah of Iran, who visited here last month...