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Able and Baker entered and left space at a portentous earthly moment. Just a day earlier Statesman John Foster Dulles had been buried on the date set, and broken, by Russia's Nikita Khrushchev as the deadline for the Western powers to desert West Berlin. Now the Big Four foreign ministers were returning to Geneva, where they had been trying to get off the diplomatic ground for three weeks. The trip of Able and Baker had meaning to the Geneva conference. A Russian dog named Laika had been the first living animal to orbit through space, and there...
...concerned seemed to feel that the purpose of Geneva was to render a heads-of-state meeting possible. But the inconclusive talk at Geneva, and the uncompromising talk outside it, reinforced the suspicion that a summit meeting is unlikely to settle anything the foreign ministers cannot. In fact, even Nikita Khrushchev's longstanding enthusiasm for summit talks seemed last week to have been cooled-as it was last year-by the evidence that he was unlikely to win any cheap victories. Almost ignored was his offhand remark, in a speech at Korea in Albania: "If there is no meeting...
...Boss Nikita Khrushchev can visit only after getting due permission. Ironically enough, it is that old target of Kremlin abuse, Marshal Tito, who has to give the permission-to fly across the Yugoslav territory that separates Albania from the other satellites. Last week, as Khrushchev's jet TU-104 streaked toward Tirana with Tito's consent, the Soviet leader wired: "As I am flying over your territory, I send you warmest congratulations on your [67th] birthday...
Once in a while, said Nikita Khrushchev thoughtfully last week, he reads books, but sometimes has to scratch himself to keep awake...
Conspicuously not mentioned by Nikita Khrushchev was the best author Russia has, Nobel Laureate Boris Pasternak, but the message to him seemed to be: the heat...