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...worst of times, the leaders of the world's nations played out their separate parts. In Washington, President Eisenhower presented his annual budget to the Congress -one that presages the most prosperous year in U.S. history, making possible a tidy budget surplus. In Moscow, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev announced that the Red army will be cut by 1,200,000 men (wary Western diplomats listened hopefully, but wondered if it was not just another refrain from a familiar Russian lullaby). In Paris, Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon exhorted 18 members of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation...
...Vatican was not happy about Nikita Khrushchev's glad-handing barnstorm through the U.S., opposed the proposed (and now postponed) trip of Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi to Russia. Last week tough-minded, conservative Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, secretary of the Congregation of the Holy Office, took the occasion of a Mass before a group of refugees from Communist countries to deliver some hard words...
...most highfalutin, the goal of Soviet education is "men and women of noble spirit and lofty ideals who will serve their people selflessly." But Russian schools do not inevitably produce bright-eyedc "builders of Communist society"-not in a land of war orphans and working mothers. Three years ago Nikita Khrushchev ordered a Pavlovian solution: boarding schools in which "engineers of the soul" could hatch a new elite under ideal laboratory conditions. By last week Russia had more than 500 such new schools, with an enrollment of 360,000 students. "The time is not far off," Khrushchev has gloated, "when...
...last week, all gratitude had drained from Nikita's heart. Growling that in their reports to the meeting the republic's Party Chief Nikolai Belyaev and Premier Dinmukhamed Kunaev had "lacked the courage to admit their shortcomings," Khrushchev announced bluntly that he would do it for them...
...good crop was raised this year in Kazakhstan," said Nikita, "but poor organization lost it. On Nov. 1, 4,000,000 acres planted to grain had not been harvested. The Kazakhstanis say that some of the grain was flattened by the first snow, and they harvested it afterward. But what sort of harvesting is that? You know how geese pluck grass, especially goslings. A gosling grabs a blade of grass, yanks it out and falls on his backside. That," said Khrushchev amid laughter and applause, "is about how they harvested the grain left under the snow in Kazakhstan...