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...NIKITA Khrushchev's latest sidekick and fixer is an enigmatic Armenian who is Soviet Communism's big-time businessman. To find out all it could about Trader Mikoyan, TIME tracked down men who had bargained with him from Hong Kong to Marseille, ranging from U.S. ambassadors to Germans who dealt with him during the days of the Hitler-Stalin pact. One of the directors of Rome's Armenian Pontifical College insists that Armenians everywhere, Communist or antiCommunist, generally admire him as a "man with a head on his shoulders." Diplomats, defectors, Russian specialists in ten capitals from...
...elbow of Nikita Khrushchev, as he toured East Germany this summer, appeared a new traveling partner, sallow, stoop-shouldered, scowling. Unlike the previous sidekick, Bulganin, who looked like an amiable riverboat gambler living it up, this saturnine little man seemed to shrink from the speechmaking and the public panoply, the peculiar rites and duties of the proletarian potentates who parade about holding durbars in subject states like 19th century monarchs, while talking over their shoulders to the press like 20th century pols. Yet the world noted, as it was meant to, that wherever the Russians went in East Berlin, Deputy...
...stage for the sensational speech by Khrushchev that followed. Yet such are the intricacies of Kremlin politics that the one innocent victim of Stalinist slaughter cited by Mikoyan was Ukrainian Old Bolshevik Stanislav Kosior, whose successor in Kiev, as everybody in the hall knew, was the keen young Stalinist Nikita Khrushchev...
Mikoyan has hung on tenaciously beside Driver Khrushchev. Last winter, when some of the old crowd, emboldened by Khrushchev's setbacks in Hungary and the Middle East, sought to confine his reach for top power, Mikoyan's instinct made him stick with Nikita. In June, when even Bulganin and the aged Voroshilov deserted Khrushchev and swelled the Presidium's vote to 7 to 4 against him, Mikoyan backed the party's First Secretary and proved to have followed the right hunch. Within 48 hours Khrushchev, using his party machine in exactly the same fashion as Stalin...
...Nikita Khrushchev last week presented himself to the world as first in war, first in peace and first in smacking down his countrymen. His propagandists boasted that Russia had fired the world's first successful intercontinental ballistic missile. His diplomats rejected President Eisenhower's disarmament plan on the ground that peace-loving Russia had already called for a ban on nuclear war. And in Moscow his press printed three stern private speeches delivered about the time of Khrushchev's recent power grab, all showing the Soviet boss talking and acting more and more like the Stalin...