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...would want to live all my life in Paris if there was not this earth which is called Moscow," said Nikita Khrushchev in Paris last week, quoting the Russian poet, Vladimir Mayakovsky. But though Khrushchev was over the flu, in Paris he was still capable of catching a chill...
...Nikita Khrushchev was his old bouncy self. He stopped off to tell the Chamber of Commerce how eager he was to have dealings with France's biggest capitalists, if only he had more to buy with. "We have a little gold," he added, "but we keep it. I don't know why. Lenin said, 'A day will come when they will pave floors of public toilets with gold.' " Then Khrushchev abruptly asked whether anyone knew of any descendants of a Frenchman named Lebrun who had owned the Ukrainian mine where he had slaved as a youth...
When well-established teams break up -such as Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin, or Nikolai Bulganin and Nikita Khrushchev-one partner usually gains and the other loses. Last week, as Nikita Khrushchev gallivanted across France with a new team he obviously trusted more (his wife and family), news leaked out of Moscow about his luckless old road-show sidekick, Marshal Bulganin...
...still bent on curtailing his propaganda opportunities, his hosts successfully resisted Nikita's demand for equal time on Paris' city hall steps, where President Eisenhower spoke last September. They also held out against his demand to visit Strasbourg, suspecting that there, on the Franco-German border itself, the Soviet tourist might let fly with a tirade against the Germans...
When Vanguard I, the U.S.'s second satellite, popped into orbit early in 1958, Nikita Khrushchev derided it as a "grapefruit." It was indeed small (6.4 in. in diameter, 3.25 Ibs.). But last week, as it completed its second year in orbit, Vanguard had proved to have two virtues that the massive Soviet satellites lack. First, it soared into so high an orbit (apogee 2,500 miles above the earth, perigee 400 miles) that the outermost fringes of the atmosphere exert almost no slowing effect on its motion. It has kept going while heavier competitors sagged into the atmosphere...