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...Communist world, the powerful promise that goes beyond the grim necessities of deterrent military power. In programs with the shopworn names of "foreign aid" and "reciprocal trade." for example, lie important chances for mobilizing the free world and fighting on U.S. terms the economic cold war declared by Nikita Khrushchev...
...Communist coronation. Kleig lights blazed down from the Corinthian capitals of St. Andrew's Hall; diplomats and newsmen packed the galleries, photographers jammed the aisles. At one minute past 5 o'clock, the top half-dozen Communist bosses entered from the side, led by bald Nikita Khrushchev with his two Orders of Lenin gleaming from his dark lapel. Joining Russian-fashion in the applause for themselves, the stubby commissars made their way to the front seats on the platform...
...name of the Central Committee of the Communist Party." said Voroshilov, "I propose as Chairman of the Council of Ministers [i.e., Premier] our dear comrade Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev...
...marshal praised Khrushchev as defender of "Leninist ideas," rectifier of Stalin's "mistakes." "untiring champion of peace," architect of a "majestic housing program." victor over "antiparty plotters" such as Malenkov and Molotov. Because of Khrushchev's "exceptionally fruitful work." he concluded, "it has been decided that Nikita Sergeevich should [also] remain in his post as First Secretary" of the Communist Party...
...space of a few minutes. Nikita Khrushchev had brushed aside the myth of collective leadership and gathered to himself formal command over both the Soviet government and the Communist Party. No man except Stalin had held both jobs simultaneously before (Malenkov held both for a few transitional days in 1953 ), and even Stalin, who could have taken the premiership any time he chose, found it wise to wait 19 years for what...