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Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson could hardly have had a more opportune week to start his Senate Preparedness Subcommittee on a full-dress investigation of the state of the nation's defenses. In Moscow Nikita Khrushchev, in his latest ploy of missile oneupmanship, boasted that the U.S.S.R. now had assembly-line production of intercontinental ballistic missiles with pinpoint accuracy "to any part of the globe." In Washington President Eisenhower scoffed politely, said that U.S. missile progress was "remarkable" and "going forward as rapidly as possible. I think it is a matter for pride on the part of America...
...When Nikita Khrushchev put a slow fuse on his threat to turn Berlin over to the East German authorities, he did not act capriciously. In both preceding crises of 1958, the United States reacted more impetuously than the Soviets had calculated; the six-month period of grace on the Berlin issue was designed to provide time enough so that doubt and dissension could germinate among the Western allies...
Firm Stands. At session's end Anastas Mikoyan slipped into a wide-lapelled overcoat, informed newsmen that the talks with Dulles and Ike had been "a useful exchange of views." What Mikoyan meant by "useful" only he knew-and Nikita Khrushchev would presumably find out. But what Washington hoped he meant was this: that Mikoyan, despite the ardor of his reception elsewhere, realized that the two men who actually direct U.S. foreign policy have no intention of being bulldozed, bluffed or cozened out of Berlin or anywhere else...
...Lysenko has the resistance and recuperative power of ragweed. A practical botanist of some skill, he concentrated on improving corn, and thereby worked his way into the graces of corn-loving Nikita Khrushchev, a practical man with a built-in contempt for academics. When he saw tall corn nurtured on a particularly thrifty mixture of manure and factory fertilizers, Khrushchev proclaimed: "Biological disputes should be settled in the fields. Comrade Lysenko has shown astonishing results." No sooner had Khrushchev called for a drive to overtake the U.S. in milk production than the practical Lysenko was out in his barns feeding...
...free city. But he vigorously renewed Russia's demand that West Berlin alone be converted into a free city, contending this is needed to keep the area from becoming "a possible hotbed of war." The Soviety Deputy Premier is scheduled to leave tomorrow for Moscow to report to Premier Nikita Khrushchev and to get ready for a big Communist party meeting later this month...