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...former student at Macalester College, St. Paul, Minn., where I had Hubert Humphrey as a professor of political science, it was no surprise to me that his "lesson" to Nikita Khrushchev should have lasted eight hours. Many times his classes (1943-45) would run beyond the end-of-the-class bell-sometimes through the dinner hour and into the evening. He was a stimulating teacher, and he would be an excellent choice for President...
...overseeing not only Soviet foreign trade but also domestic distribution of goods. After World War II, he set up the Soviet economic apparatus for milking the captive nations of Eastern Europe. During the shifting struggle for power and survival after Stalin's death. Mikoyan shrewdly sided with Nikita Khrushchev when the other schemers from the old Stalin gang joined forces against the upstart. When Khrushchev won out, the wily Armenian emerged as No. 2 man, with the title of Deputy Premier. Khrushchev's apparent trust, and growing authority over foreign relations...
Ever since Stalin's death and Nikita Khrushchev's sensational revelations of the tyrant's betrayals of "Socialist legality." Soviet citizens have been told that they will get formal safeguards under the law. All leading Soviet jurists now brand as "erroneous" the specious justifications by which the late Andrei Vishinsky, Stalin's top prosecutor, 1) upheld police terror, 2) used confessions alone to prove guilt, and 3) when no law applied, invoked other laws "by analogy" to send innumerable men to death or slavery in the theatrical purge trials...
With just the right touch of respect for his elders, Comrade Nikita Khrushchev, 64, wafted eastward a friendly birthday message for Comrade Mao Tse-tung, 65, hailed his "untiring and many-sided activities in leading the heroic struggle of the Chinese people and the Chinese Communist Party...
While U.S. educators have exhorted one another to look to Russia as a shining example of scholastic success, at least one Soviet citizen has been sharply critical of his country's school system. The critic: Premier Nikita Khrushchev, who last April began grumbling that students were graduating from high school with an unmaterialistic, lily-fingered snobbery about physical labor, Marx urged that children be set to work early, the Premier told a youth congress ominously, "and that is quite correct, since only under such conditions will boys and girls appreciate the full complexity and the delights of labor...