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...President takes to TV, the British Prime Minister rises in the House of Commons, but when Nikita Khrushchev wants to tell the world, he attends a cocktail party. Last week the scene was Moscow's Egyptian embassy, the occasion a reception for Egypt's War Minister Major General Abdel Hakim Amer. Nikita easily held the center of the stage. But in a brief encounter, he was almost upstaged by an amateur, TIME-LIFE Photographer John Bryson. Bryson's account...
...smoke and the crowd had cleared for an instant, there they stood, Mikoyan very stiff, Gromyko looking amazingly like Dick Nixon, bemedaled Malinovsky, a benign, kewpie-doll Bulganin and then, as two shoulders parted, on a level with them was the pink, pleasant, unsmiling face of Nikita Khrushchev...
Kills him, he is holding stomach, laughing. Someone in press behind says "attaboy." Nikita is talking to me, also sort of for benefit of Bulganin, who is leaning in, enjoying it all. We are all pushed together close. Nikita's eyes all crinkled up, he looks like real happy peasant. Holds hand up in protest. Snap, snap...
Cocktail-party diplomacy was not the bouncing Russian strongman's only propaganda weapon last week (see box). Two days later Nikita Khrushchev laid about him again in an interview (conducted without the aid of interpreters) with the U.P.'s veteran Moscow Correspondent
Henry Shapiro. Nikita's wildest thrusts...